CNG 112, Lot: 133. Estimate $7500. Sold for $11000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AV Distater (22mm, 17.12 g, 11h). Amphipolis mint. Struck under Antipater, circa 325-323/2 BC. Head of Athena right, wearing necklace, single-pendant earring, and triple-crested Corinthian helmet adorned with a coiled serpent / AΛEΞANΔPOY, Nike standing left, holding wreath in extended right hand, cradling stylis in left arm; trident head downward in left field. Price 171; Troxell, Studies, Group A, 532–3; Ars Classica XV, lot 477 (same dies). Edge marks, tiny die break in field on obverse, small scrape on reverse. VF.

From the John L. Cowan Collection, purchased from Pegasi Numismatics, 14 February 2007. Ex Classical Numismatic Group XXX (11 June 1994), lot 43.