CNG 100, Lot: 53. Estimate $3000. Sold for $6500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Antigonos I Monophthalmos. As king, 306/5-301 BC. AV Stater (17mm, 8.62 g, 3h). In the name and types of Alexander III. Tyre mint. Struck under Menes. Dated RY 38 of ‘Ozmilk (312/1 BC). Head of Athena right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet decorated with griffin, triple-pendant earring, and necklace / [AΛ]EΞANΔP[OY], Nike standing left, holding wreath in extended right hand and cradling stylis in left arm; below left wing, Phoenician ‘K (for ‘Ozmilk) and || ||| ||| –= (date, in two lines). Price 3294 (Ake; same obv. die as illustration); Newell, Dated 43 (obv. die R); Rouvier –; HGC 10, 1 (Ake); DCA 733. Near EF, slight die shift on reverse. Clear date. Very rare, only one (correctly attributed) on CoinArchives.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from Ed Cohen, February 2006.