Triton XIX, Lot: 89. Estimate $15000. Sold for $14500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AV Distater (21mm, 17.20 g, 10h). 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 191a (same obv. die); Troxell, Studies, Group B; Noe, Sicyon, 7 (A13/P– [unlisted rev. die]); Bement 705 (same obv. die); Gillet 797 (same obv. die); Gulbenkian 843. Good VF, small flat spot on reverse. Well centered on a broad flan.

Ex Künker 143 (6 October 2008), lot 140.