Triton XX, Lot: 108. Estimate $2000. Sold for $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AV Stater (17mm, 8.65 g, 1h). Miletos mint. Struck under Philoxenos, circa 325-323 BC. Head of Athena right, wearing triple-crested Corinthian helmet decorated with a coiled serpent / AΛEΞANΔPOY, Nike standing left, holding wreath in extended right hand and cradling stylis in left arm; monogram in left field. Price 2078; ADM I Series I, 13 (same dies); SNG Alpha Bank –; SNG München 571 var. (thunderbolt on obv.); SNG Saroglos 131 var. (same). EF, underlying luster.
From the MPM Collection. Ex Lanz 125 (28 November 2005), lot 246 (incorrectly attributed to Price 2283).