DEMETRIUS POLIORCETES GOLD STATER – SCARCE ALEXANDER THE GREAT TYPE ISSUE FROM MILETUS – XF NGC GRADED GREEK MACEDONIAN KINGDOM COIN (Inv. 19872)

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19872. MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. ALEXANDER III, THE GREAT, 336–323 BC.
Gold Stater, 8.54 g, 19 mm. Posthumous issue of Miletus, ca. 300–294 BC, struck under Demetrius Poliorcetes.
Obv. Head of Athena with a large Corinthian helmet, a snake ornament below the plume. Rev. ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, Nike standing facing looking to left, holding wreath in right hand and stylis over left shoulder, helmet crest in left field, double axe below left wing.
Price 2135; Thompson, Alexander Drachm Mints, vol. 1, Series IX, 226 (same dies); ANS 1944.100.31798 (same reverse die); Münzkabinett Berlin 18250178 (same dies).
Ex Central Texas Collection, acquired from Nilus Coins, inv. 30942 (with his ticket); ex Arpasi Collection, Pegasi Numismatics XXXIV, 5/23/2016, lot 92.
NGC graded XF, Strike 5/5, Surface 3/5.

A scarce variety with only 5 specimens in CoinArchives; the Pella database currently lists 5 specimens in public collections, including the American Numismatic Society, Münzkabinett Berlin (struck from the same dies), British Museum, National Numismatic Collection, De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France.