Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 191. Closing Date: Jun 08, 
        2005. Estimate 
        $2000  

      KINGS of MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes. 306-283 
      BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.94 gm, 4h). Pella mint. 
      Struck circa 292-291 BC. Diademed and horned head 
      right / Poseidon Asphalaios seated left; monogram 
      to outer right and on rock. Newell 74 (dies 
      LXIII/116). Good VF, light golden toning around 
      devices, small obverse die break. ($2000)

      Newell remarks that the engraver of this obverse 
      die was particularly skilled, and that the 
      portrait is strikingly lifelike.

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High bid of $2200, $2530 or approximately €1782, £1210, C$2750, A$2860, on June 8, 2005.

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