Triton XVI, Lot: 282. Estimate $3000. Sold for $4000. 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 (18mm, 8.55 g, 1h). Lampsakos mint. Struck under Kalas or Demarchos, circa 328/5-323 BC. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet decorated with serpent, single-pendant earring, and necklace / AΛEΞANΔPOY, Nike standing left, holding wreath in extended right hand and cradling stylis in left arm; conjoined horse foreparts in left field, monogram below left wing. Price 1358; ADM II series V, 100 (same obv. die); SNG Saroglos 121. Superb EF, underlying luster, a hint of die rust in hair.