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# 126 - Auction is closed.Estimate: US$1500
/ Price Realized: US$2500
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Macedonian Kingdom. Demetrius Poliorcetes. Tetradrachm
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Macedonian Kingdom. Demetrius Poliorcetes. 306-283 BC. Tetradrachm, 17.16gg. (1h). Uncertain Macedonia, c. 290 BC. Obv: Diademed head of king right with bull's horns. Rx: ÂÁÓÉËÅÙÓ ÄÇÌÇÔÑÉÏÕ Poseidon seated left on rock, holding aphlaston in outstretched right hand and trident in raised left hand; monograms in inner fields. Newell 100. Powerful portrait of king wearing royal horn and diadem. Near Mint State.
Ex Berk 128, 29 August 2002, lot 82.
Poseidon hurling a trident is the common type of Demetrius’ tetradrachm reverses, symbolizing the king’s deeds during the war against the Ptolemaic navy in the Aegean. Much less frequent is the type of the victorious god, sitting relaxed at the seashore with the trophies of war. Newell was certainly right in suggesting that this type might belong to a later stage of Demetrius’ life when he was struggling in mainland Greece with Sparta, Thebes, and his rivals for the throne of Macedon, Alexander V and Pyrrhos.
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