CNG 100, Lot: 45. Estimate $3000. Sold for $7900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AV Stater (17.5mm, 8.65 g, 11h). Sidon mint. Struck under Menes. Dated RY 7 of Abdalonymos (327/6 BC). Head of Athena right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet decorated with coiled serpent, and necklace / AΛEΞANΔPOY, Nike standing left, holding wreath in extended right hand and cradling stylis in left arm; palm frond and date (in Phoenician) to left, ΣI below left wing. Price 3482; Newell, Dated 21 (dies –/α [unlisted obv. die]); Rouvier 1171; DCA 867. EF, lustrous, a hint of die rust on obverse. From the earliest issue of dated Sidon staters.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from Classical Numismatic Group, January 2006.