Lot 75 - Auction Gemini XII

POSEIDON VICTORIOUS REVERSE. ...
POSEIDON VICTORIOUS REVERSE. ...
POSEIDON VICTORIOUS REVERSE. Macedonian Kingdom. Demetrius Poliorcetes. - 306-283 BC. Tetradrachm, 16.68g (3h). Uncertain Macedonia, c. ... Read more
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POSEIDON VICTORIOUS REVERSE.
Macedonian Kingdom. Demetrius Poliorcetes. - 306-283 BC. Tetradrachm, 16.68g (3h). Uncertain Macedonia, c. 290 BC. Obv: Diademed head of king right with bull's horns. Rx: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ Poseidon seated left on rock, holding aphlaston in outstretched right hand and trident in raised left hand; in left field, Phrygian helmet. Newell, p. 122, no. 137, pl. XIV, 4. Boston 707. High relief obverse. Nicely toned. Good EF
Purchased in the 1990s from Dr. Bradley Bowlin on Vcoins
Notes
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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