CNG 102, Lot: 219. Estimate $3000. Sold for $6500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AV Stater (17.5mm, 8.55 g, 10h). Uncertain mint in the Levant or East. Possibly posthumous issue. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet decorated with serpent, single-pendant earring, and necklace / AΛEΞANΔPOY BAΣI-ΛEΩΣ, Nike standing left, holding wreath in extended right hand and cradling stylis in left arm; HP below left wing; below right wing, NK monogram above ΔEI. Unpublished, but cf. CNG Inventory 263521 = Price PO(1) 211 = Prokesh-Osten, "Liste des Alexandres de ma collection qui ne se trouvent pas dans le catalogue de Mr. L. Müller," NZ 1 (1869), 211 for a tetradrachm with nearly identical markings. EF, lustrous, die rust and die shift on obverse. Extremely rare.

The presence of the royal title in combination with a complex form of control markings suggest a mint in the Levant or the East.