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| Heritage World Coin Auctions > Showcase Auction 61641 | Auction date: 2 August 2026 |
| Lot number: 23083 Price realized: 300 USD (Approx. 261 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 (27mm, 1h). NGC Fine. Posthumous issue in the name and types of Alexander III the Great of Macedon from Miletus, ca. 300-295 BC. Head of Heracles right, wearing lion-skin headdress, paws tied before neck / AΛEΞANΔPOY, Zeus seated left on backless throne, right leg drawn back, feet on ground line, eagle in right hand, scepter in left; ΣΑΡ monogram in left field, bipennis below throne. Price 2143. Ex Heritage Auctions, Auction 232302 (11 January 2023), lot 62033. 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. This dynamic tetradrachm type was struck at several mints in honor of the great naval victory over Ptolemy at Salamis, with the obverse image of Nike matching closely with the famous marble statue of the winged goddess found at Samothrace and now housed in the Louvre. The reverse image of Poseidon is rendered here in wonderful style, an undeniable masterpiece of anatomical relief sculpture in miniature. www.HA.com/TexasAuctioneerLicenseNotice https://coins.ha.com/itm/ancients/greek/macedonian-kingdom-demetrius-i-poliorcetes-306-283-bc-ar-tetradrachm-27mm-1h-ngc-fine/p/61641-11018.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-61641-08022026 HID02906262019 © 2026 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved Certification number: NGC 6369655008 |  |
