KINGS OF MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes, 306-283 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 27.7 mm, 17.21 g, 10 h), Pella, c. 289- autumn 288 BC. Diademed head of Demetrios Poliorketes to right, with bull’s horn above his forehead. Rev. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ, Poseidon, nude, standing to left, resting right foot on a rock, holding trident in left hand and resting right on thigh; in outer right field, monogram of HP; in outer field to left, monogram of EKP, partially retrograde. HGC 3, 1014a. Newell 90 (unlisted dies). SNG Copenhagen 1179. Lightly toned and of good metal, area of striking flatness on the obverse, otherwise about extremely fine.

ex. Emporium Hamburg 107, 9 December 2024, 67, and Emporium Hamburg 76, 12 May 2016, 38.

Macedon, Demetrios I. AR Tetradrachm

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