| Heritage World Coin Auctions > Showcase Auction 61569 | Auction date: 23 November 2025 |
| Lot number: 22212 Price realized: 360 USD (Approx. 312 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | Show similar lots on CoinArchives Find similar lots in upcoming auctions on  |
| Lot description: Ancients MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. Demetrius I Poliorcetes (306-283 BC). AR tetradrachm (29mm, 16.93 gm, 4h). NGC Choice Fine 5/5 - 4/5, brushed. Posthumous issue, Corinth in the name and types of Alexander III the Great of Macedon, ca. 310-290 BC. Head of Heracles right, wearing lion skin headdress, paws tied before neck / AΛEΞANΔPOY / BAΣIΛEΩΣ, Zeus enthroned left, right leg drawn back, feet on stool, eagle in outstretched right hand, grounded scepter in left; horse head left in left field, ΔE below strut. Price 690. The most dashing of Alexander's successors, Demetrius I Poliorcetes was the son of the great Macedonian general Antigonus Monopthalmus ("one-eyed"), who served both Philip II and Alexander III the Great. After Alexander's death, Demetrius led armies in support of his father's claim to supreme power. He won an important naval victory in 306 BC at Salamis against the Ptolemaic fleet. He, along with his father, accepted the title Basileos ("king"), ending the fiction that the Diadochi were ruling a united government. In 305 BC, Demetrius subjected Rhodes to a monumental siege, employing the largest and most elaborate artillery engines and battle towers yet constructed. Ultimately unsuccessful, the siege still won him the epithet Poliorcetes ("besieger"), by which he is still known. He had more success ruling Macedon during 301-288 BC, but his extravagance and capricious nature eventually proved his undoing and he spent his waning years in comfortable Seleucid captivity. Still, the dynasty he established endured in Macedon until 168 BC. www.HA.com/TexasAuctioneerLicenseNotice https://coins.ha.com/itm/ancients/greek/macedonian-kingdom-demetrius-i-poliorcetes-306-283-bc-ar-tetradrachm-29mm-1693-gm-4h-ngc-choice-fine-5-5-4-5-brushed/p/61569-19002.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-61569-11232025 HID02906262019 © 2025 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved Certification number: NGC 8229382002 |  |
