Triton XX, Lot: 109. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AV Stater (18mm, 8.55 g, 11h). Tyre mint. Struck under Menes. Dated RY 24 of Azemilkos (326/5 BC). Head of Athena right, wearing triple-crested Corinthian helmet decorated with griffin, and pearl necklace / AΛEΞANΔ-POY, Nike standing left, holding wreath in extended right hand and cradling stylis in left arm; ||||= (date) and Phoenician ‘K (for ‘Ozmilk) below right wing. Price 3259 (Ake; same dies as illustration); Newell, Dated 19 (dies E/α); Rouvier –; HGC 10, 1 (Ake); DCA 733; SNG Alpha Bank –; SNG München –; SNG Saroglos –; ANS Inv. 1944.100.35268 (same dies). Good VF, toned, a few edge marks, fields smoothed. Extremely rare, only two noted by Newell (BM and Vienna), one additional in Pella database (ANS), none in ANS photofile, and this is the only piece in CoinArchives.

From the Dr. Patrick H. C. Tan Collection. Ex G. Hirsch 267 (5 May 2010), lot 165; G. Hirsch 264 (25 November 2009), lot 177.