Triton XVIII, Lot: 468. Estimate $3000. Sold for $3700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Philip III Arrhidaios. 323-317 BC. AV Stater (19mm, 8.59 g, 3h). Kolophon mint. Struck under Menander or Kleitos, circa 322-319 BC. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet decorated with coiled serpent / ΦIΛIΠΠOY, Nike standing left, holding wreath in extended right hand and cradling stylis in left arm; tripod in left field. Price P41; SNG Saroglos –; SNG Copenhagen 1072 (same dies); Triton V, lot 1301; Hess-Divo 320, lot 118. EF, lustrous, a little die wear on reverse. Well centered and struck. Very rare, only two in CoinArchives.

From the RH Collection.

Rare Alexander type struck contemporary with the famous “Alexander portrait” type of Philip II staters (see previous lot).