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<p>[QUOTE="PeteB, post: 6316396, member: 99412"]A small bronze:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1250199[/ATTACH] </p><p>KINGS of MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes. 306-285 BC. AE (13mm; 1.40 gm; 2h). Uncertain mint in Asia Minor. Obv: Nike, blowing trumpet and holding stylis, standing left on prow of galley left. Rev: Poseidon Pelagaios standing left, preparing to throw trident; BA to left; to right, monogram above Δ (legend, control mark); HGC 3, 1031 var. (same). Cf Newell 62; cf. AMNG III pg. 181, 7; SNG Copenhagen__; SNG Alpha Bank__. Black patina. A major auction house writes: "This bronze bears the canonical types found in the ubiquitous early tetradrachms of Demetrios. The issue is missing from most collections, and this variety appears to be unpublished in the standard references."[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="PeteB, post: 6316396, member: 99412"]A small bronze: [ATTACH=full]1250199[/ATTACH] KINGS of MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes. 306-285 BC. AE (13mm; 1.40 gm; 2h). Uncertain mint in Asia Minor. Obv: Nike, blowing trumpet and holding stylis, standing left on prow of galley left. Rev: Poseidon Pelagaios standing left, preparing to throw trident; BA to left; to right, monogram above Δ (legend, control mark); HGC 3, 1031 var. (same). Cf Newell 62; cf. AMNG III pg. 181, 7; SNG Copenhagen__; SNG Alpha Bank__. Black patina. A major auction house writes: "This bronze bears the canonical types found in the ubiquitous early tetradrachms of Demetrios. The issue is missing from most collections, and this variety appears to be unpublished in the standard references."[/QUOTE]
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