Nomos AG
Auction 25 20 Nov 2022
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KINGS OF MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes, 306-283 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 27 mm, 17.12 g, 11 h), Pella, c. 294-293. Nike, blowing a trumpet and holding a stylis, alighting to left on a left-facing galley prow. Rev. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩ-Σ ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ Poseidon, nude but for wreath of reeds and a chlamys wrapped around his left arm, striding left, hurling trident from his upraised right hand; in the field to left, monogram of ΖΩ; to right, within the inscription, dolphin swimming left above a star with eight rays. HGC 3.1, 1012e. Newell 68, obverse die LVII. A sharp and beautifully toned example. Extremely fine.
From the Collection "sans Pareille", acquired from Spink & Son in London in the 1980s.
The depiction of Nike on a prow on the obverse is very similar to that of the Victory of Samothrace, now in the Louvre. Some scholars even believe that statue inspired the coin, but it is now thought that the statue is later, and was erected by Antigonos Gonatas c. 255.
From the Collection "sans Pareille", acquired from Spink & Son in London in the 1980s.
The depiction of Nike on a prow on the obverse is very similar to that of the Victory of Samothrace, now in the Louvre. Some scholars even believe that statue inspired the coin, but it is now thought that the statue is later, and was erected by Antigonos Gonatas c. 255.