ALEXANDER THE GREAT GOLD STATER – ISSUE OF MILETUS WITH BEAUTIFUL FULL-HEAD NIKE – AU NGC GRADED GREEK MACEDONIAN KINGDOM COIN (Inv. 21219)

$8,500.00

21219. MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. ALEXANDER III, THE GREAT, 323–319 BC.
Gold Stater, 8.61 g, 17 mm. Early posthumous issue of Miletus, ca. 323–319 BC.
Obv. Head of Athena right, wearing large Corinthian helmet with coiled snake ornament below the plume. Rev. [AΛEΞANΔPOY], Nike standing, her hair gathered in a topknot, looking left, holding wreath in right hand and stylis, labrys (double axe) below right wing, stalk of grain in outer right field.
Price 2095; SNG Copenhagen 633; 11 specimens in the Pella database, including pieces in the ANS, British Museum, Bibliothèque nationale de France, and Münzkabinett Berlin.
NGC graded AU, Strike 5/5, Surface 3/5, with a full–head Nike.