KINGS OF MACEDON. Alexander III 'the Great', 336-323 BC

KINGS OF MACEDON. Alexander III 'the Great', 336-323 BC. Stater (Gold, 19 mm, 8.43 g, 12 h), Sinope, circa 230-200. Head of Athena to right, wearing Corinthian helmet decorated with a coiled serpent. Rev. [A]ΛEΞANΔΡOΥ Nike standing front, head to left, with her wings spread, holding laurel wreath in her right hand and stylis in her left; to left, eight-rayed star; below left wing, ΔΙ above ΣΙ; below right wing, monogram of ΣΕ. Price 1247. Struck from a somewhat worn obverse die and with light marks and minor roughness on the reverse, otherwise, about extremely fine.


From the Trausnitz Collection, Nomos 20, 10 July 2020, 120, previously privately acquired from Athena in May 1985 and ex Lanz 24, 25 April 1983, 168.