Sale: CNG 67, Lot: 428. Estimate $1500. Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 September 2004. Sold For $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III. 336-323 BC. AV Stater (8.57 gm). Colophon mint. Struck under Antigonos I Monophthalmos, circa 319-310 BC. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet decorated with serpent / Nike standing left, holding wreath and stylis;
SW in left field, monogram below left wing. Cf. Price 1788 (same obverse die, different monogram); Hersh,
Additions -; V. Arena, "New Acquisitions at the British Museum: additions to Price,
Alexander, and to the 1870 Larnaca Hoard,"
NumChron 2003, 13 var. (same obverse die, monogram in left field); Müller -. Good VF, minor obverse die rust. ($1500)
From the Garth R. Drewry Collection.