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Triton XVIII, Lot: 470. Estimate $20000.
Sold for $19000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Philip III Arrhidaios. 323-317 BC. AV Stater (17.5mm, 8.50 g, 10h). In the name of Alexander III. Susa mint. Struck under Koinos, circa 322-320 BC. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet decorated with coiled serpent, single-pendant earring, and pearl necklace / BAΣI-ΛEΩ[Σ] AΛEΞANΔPO[Y], Nike standing left, holding wreath in extended right hand and cradling stylis in left arm; ΛA below left wing, monogram below right wing. Price 3845 corr. (location of control letters); SNG Saroglos 171; SNG Ashmolean 3106; Anadol 416. Superb EF, lustrous, attractive light toning around the devices. Well centered and as struck from fresh dies.


Ex Nomos FPL (Winter-Spring 2012), no. 13.