ALEXANDER THE GREAT GOLD STATER – LIFETIME ISSUE OF SALAMIS WITH QUIVER SYMBOL – CHOICE AU NGC GRADED GREEK MACEDONIAN KINGDOM COIN (Inv. 21461)

$12,500.00

21461. MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. ALEXANDER III, THE GREAT, 336–323 BC.
Gold Stater, 8.63 g, 18 mm. LATE LIFETIME issue of Salamis, Cyprus, ca. 332–323 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 and stylis, quiver in left field.
Price 3135; British Museum 1878,0301.60 (same obverse die); Münzkabinett Berlin 18251378 (same dies)
NGC CHOICE AU, Strike 4/5, Surface 4/5. The quiver is a rare symbol variety, with some four specimens recorded in market records and three in the Pella database.