ALEXANDER THE GREAT GOLD STATER – LIFETIME/EARLY POSTHUMOUS ISSUE WITH EAGLE SYMBOL – EXCEPTIONAL CHOICE MINT STATE 5-5 5-5 NGC GRADED GREEK KINGDOM OF MACEDON COIN (Inv. 20930)

$37,500.00

20930. MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. ALEXANDER III, THE GREAT, 336-323 BC.
Gold Stater, 8.62 g, 18 mm. Lifetime-early posthumous issue of an uncertain Asia Minor mint, ca. 330-320 BC.
Obv. Head of Athena right, wearing large Corinthian helmet with coiled snake ornament below the plume. Rev. ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, Nike standing, looking left, holding wreath in right hand and stylis over left shoulder, eagle standing right below left wing.
Price 3129 (as “Salamis”); British Museum 1994,0915.34 (same dies).
NGC graded CHOICE MINT STATE, Strike 5/5, Surface 5/5, a superb coin with immaculate luster, among the very best gold Alexanders available on the market today.

Martin Price has traditionally attributed the eagle varieties to Salamis in Cyprus and regarded them as lifetime emissions, ca. 332-323 BC. More recently Hyla Troxell has argued that these coins likely belong to a different mint in Western Asia Minor. The Pella database lists ten specimens of this Price number, including pieces in the New York (ANS), Paris, Vienna, and London (British Museum). This coin is among the very few where the scales on the snake are clearly visible.