312, Lot: 7. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Antigonos I Monophthalmos. As Strategos of Asia, 320-306/5 BC. AV Stater (17mm, 8.569 g, 1h). In the name and types of Alexander III. Babylon mint. Struck under Peithon, circa 315-311 BC. Head of Athena right, wearing single-pendant earring, necklace, and triple-crested Corinthian helmet adorned with a serpent / BAΣI-ΛEΩΣ AΛEΞANΔPOY, Nike standing left, holding wreath in extended right hand, cradling stylis in left arm; monogram below left and right wings. Price 3724; Waggoner Series 3D, 389 (same obv. die); SNG Saroglos –. EF, underlying luster, die rust on obverse, slight die shift and minor die break on reverse. Exceptionally detailed Nike.

From the Clearwater Collection.

In 315 BC, Antigonos I Monophthalmos forced Seleukos I to flee from his satrapy in Babylon, and replaced him with Peithon, a Macedonian who had served under Alexander III as satrap of southern India.