CNG 100, Lot: 42. Estimate $10000. Sold for $16000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AV Distater (21mm, 17.19 g, 9h). Amphipolis mint. Struck under Antipater, circa 325-323/2 BC. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet decorated with serpent, single-pendant earring, and two necklaces / AΛEΞANΔPOY, Nike standing left, holding wreath in extended right hand and cradling stylis in left arm; vertical thunderbolt in left field, ΛO monogram below left wing. Price 191; Troxell, Studies, Group B; Noe, Sicyon, 7 (unlisted dies); SNG Alpha Bank 456; SNG München 340; SNG Saroglos 93-4; Athena Fund II 399; Bement 705; Gillet 797; Gulbenkian 843. VF, tiny mark on cheek, light scratch in field on reverse. Well centered and struck.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from Classical Numismatic Group, January 1997.