Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 118Auction date: 8 April 2024
Lot number: 370

Price realized: 650 GBP   (Approx. 822 USD / 757 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
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Lot description:


Kingdom of Macedon, Demetrios I Poliorketes AR Tetradrachm. In the name and types and Alexander III. Corinth, circa 310-290 BC. Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress / Zeus Aëtophoros seated to left, holding sceptre; ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ below, [AΛ]EΞANΔPOY to right, aplustre to left, NO below throne. Price 681 var. (no royal title, Nikai on throne back); Troxell, Peloponnesian Alexanders pl. XIX, 7 (same dies); "Seleucus I" Hoard (2005), in Coin Hoards X, #318 & pl. 1, 318 (this coin). 17.19g, 28mm, 3h.

Near Extremely Fine; light cabinet tone.

This coin published in O. Hoover, A. Meadows, and U. Wartenberg (eds.), Coin Hoards Volume X: Greek Hoards (London & New York, 2010);
Ex Dr. Robert Hesselgesser Collection, Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Auction 42, 23 September 2007, lot 39.

Estimate: 350 GBP