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Auction 27 22 May 2023
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KINGS OF MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes, 306-283 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 30 mm, 17.21 g, 6 h), Pella, circa 294-293. Nike, blowing a trumpet and holding a stylis, alighting to left on a left-facing galley prow. Rev. ΒΑ-ΣΙΛΕΩ-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. Sharply struck, beautifully toned and very attractive. Good extremely fine.
Acquired from Classical Numismatic Group in April 1996.
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.
Acquired from Classical Numismatic Group in April 1996.
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.