Triton XVII, Lot: 157. Estimate $3000. Sold for $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Philip III Arrhidaios. 323-317 BC. AV Stater (18mm, 8.52 g, 3h). Babylon mint. Struck under Archon, Dokimos, or Seleukos I, circa 323-318/7 BC. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet decorated with serpent / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΦIΛI-ΠΠOY, Nike standing left, holding wreath in extended right hand and cradling stylis in left arm; wheel and monogram below left wing. Price P193 var. (position of wheel); SNG Alpha Bank –; SNG München –; SNG Saroglos –; CNG 90, lot 468 (same dies); Lanz 144, lot 156 (same dies). EF, underlying luster. Very rare variety.

Ex Semon Lipcer Collection; CNG Inventory 783950 (January 2007).