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Research Coins: Feature Auction

 
Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 193. Estimate $2500. 
Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009. 
Sold For $2300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AV Stater (8.43 g, 11h). Mesembria mint. Struck circa 250-225 BC. Head of Athena right, wearing single-pendant earring, necklace, and crested Corinthian helmet decorated with serpent / BA-ΣIΛEΩΣ AΛEΞANΔPOY, Nike standing left, holding wreath in extended right hand and cradling stylis in left arm; below left wing, Corinthian helmet left. Price 974 (same obv. die as illustration); Karayotov 6 (O3/R3); Topalov, Messambria 14; SNG München -; SNG Alpha Bank -; SNG Saroglos 117. Near EF, lustrous.