KINGS OF MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes, 306-283 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 27 mm, 17.04 g, 8 h), Amphipolis, 294-293 BC. Nike, blowing a trumpet and holding a stylis, alighting to left on a left-facing galley prow. Rev. ΒΑ-ΣΙΛΕ-ΩΣ ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ Poseidon, nude but for wreath of reeds and a chlamys wrapped around his left arm, striding left, hurling trident from his upraised right hand; in the field to left, tripod; in the inner field to right, Z above monogram of ME. HGC 3.1, 1012f. Newell 94 (dies LXXXV/-). Nicely struck and toned. Extremely fine.

From a Swiss collection, ex Elsen 147, 4 June 2021, 43 and Numismatica Ars Classica 33, 6 April 2006, 126.

The depiction of Nike on a prow on the obverse is very similar to that of the Victory of Samothrace, now in the Louvre. Some scholars even believe that statue inspired the coin, but it is now thought that the statue is later, and was erected by Antigonos Gonatas c. 255. In fact, Nike's slightly twisted posture implies that she is marching along in a parade while blowing her horn.