Sale: Nomos 3 & 4, Lot: 70. Estimate CHF3500. Closing Date: Monday, 9 May 2011. Sold For CHF5000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. Stater (Gold, 8.35 g 12), Kallatis, Circa 250-225. Helmeted head of Athena to right.
Rev. ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ Nike standing to left, holding olive wreath in her right hand and stylis with triangular sail in her left; to left, Κ; below left, monogram of ΑΤΥ. Price 902 var. A brilliant piece, perfectly preserved. Some very minor doubling on the reverse,
otherwise, virtually as struck.
From a Swiss private collection..
It is believed that the stater coinage of Kallatis was primarily produced for payments to the Gauls - thus the vast majority of the city’s gold coins were probably melted down to make Celtic staters and fractions from the later 3rd century on.