DEMETRIUS POLIORCETES SILVER TETRADRACHM – EX WESTMORELAND COLLECTION – CHOICE XF NGC GRADED GREEK MACEDONIAN KINGDOM PROVENANCED AND PLATE COIN (Inv. 20990)

$4,500.00

20990. KINGDOM OF MACEDON. DEMETRIUS POLIORCETES, 306–283 BC.
Silver Tetradrachm, 17.13 g, 29 mm. Issue of Amphipolis, ca. 289–288 BC.
Obv. Diademed head of Demetrius right with bull’s horns. Rev. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ, Poseidon standing left, holding trident, with foot raised on rock, EΛY monogram in outer left field, ΔP monogram in outer right field.
Newell, Demetrius, 124, dies CXXI/252.
Published: Westmoreland Collection, no. 33 (this coin listed and illustrated, but with incorrect provenance stated) = ex CNG Triton I, 12/2/1997, lot 438.
NGC graded CHOICE XF, Strike 4/5, Surface 4/5, “brushed,” Westmoreland publication noted on label.