Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 355. Estimate $4000.
Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.
Sold For $5350. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AV Stater (8.59 g, 8h). Aigai mint(?). Lifetime issue, struck under Antipater, circa 332-323 BC. Helmeted head of Athena right / Nike standing left, holding wreath and stylis; to left,
pankratiast standing left, in ‘guard’ position; rudder below left wing. Price 188; Noe,
Sicyon 5; A. Milavic, “Pankration and Greek Coins,”
The Celator 13, 12 (December 1999), fig. 11 (this coin). EF, lustrous.
From the collection of Maj. Anthony F. Milavic, USMC (Ret.). Ex Antiqua FPL VII (1999), no. 25.
See Milavic, op. cit. pp. 12-13, for the author’s arguments in favor of retaining Noe’s attribution of this series to Sicyon.
