Triton XVIII, Lot: 7. Estimate $10000. Sold for $6000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AV Stater (18mm, 8.60 g, 1h). Uncertain mint. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet decorated with coiled serpent, and pearl necklace / AΛEΞANΔPOY, Nike standing left, holding wreath in extended right hand and cradling stylis in left arm; to left, boukranion with horns oriented upward and downward. Price –; Tkalec (29 February 2000), lot 39 (same dies); Stack’s, Bowers & Ponterio 164, lot 141 (same dies); Sunrise 152 (this coin). Superb EF, underlying luster, beautifully centered and well struck. Very rare, one of only three published.

From the Sunrise Collection, purchased from Freeman & Sear.

Price 2539 is a series of staters from Sardes with a boukranion in the left field, but all published examples of that series have boukranioi with both horns upturned and exhibit an overall style unlike the present type, suggesting that each series was struck from different mints.