DEMETRIUS POLIORCETES SILVER TETRADRACM – UNPUBLISHED NIKE ON PROW VARIETY – CHOICE VF FINE STYLE NGC GRADED KINGDOM OF MACEDON COIN (Inv. 20566)

$4,500.00

20566. KINGDOM OF MACEDON. DEMETRIUS POLIORCETES, 306-283 BC.
Silver Tetradrachm, 17.07 g, 25 mm. Issue of Tarsus, ca. 298-295 BC.
Obv. Nike standing on ship’s prow left, blowing trumpet. Rev. ΒΑΣΙΛΩΣ ΔΗΜΙΤΡΙOΥ, Poseidon striding left, preparing to throw trident, ΘE over earlier control in left field, X in right field.
Cf. Newell, Demetrius, 38, with different control in left field.
Ex Stack’s Coin Galleries December 2008, 12/17/2008, lot 40.
NGC graded CHOICE VF, Strike 5/5, Surface 4/5, FINE STYLE.

This issue appears to be unpublished and unknown except for this specimen. Newell knew of a related variety with an X in right field, but different control on the left which he attributed to Tarsus. Even more interesting is the fact that the ΘE control appears to be engraved over a circular monogram that has partially been erased.