Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 196. Estimate $3000. Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009. Sold For $3750. 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, 5h). Lampsakos mint. Lifetime issue, struck circa 328-323 BC. Head of Athena right, wearing single-pendant earring, necklace, and crested Corinthian helmet decorated with serpent / AΛEΞANΔPO[Y], Nike standing left, holding wreath in extended right hand and cradling stylis in left arm; conjoined foreparts of two horses in left field, monogram below left wing. Price 1358; ADM II, series V; SNG München 434; SNG Alpha Bank -; SNG Saroglos 120-1. Superb EF, underlying luster.
Ex Classical Numismatic Auctions XVI (16 August 1991), lot 78.