ALEXANDER THE GREAT GOLD STATER – RARE LIFETIME ISSUE WITH STAG HEAD SYMBOL FROM SARDES – NGC CHOICE AU FINE STYLE GREEK MACEDONIAN COIN (Inv. 21462)

$15,500.00

21462. MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. ALEXANDER III, THE GREAT, 336–323 BC.
Gold Stater, 8.61 g, 18 mm. LIFETIME issue of Sardes, ca. 334–332 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, deer head right in left field.
Price 2531; ANS 1950.146.1 (same dies); BnF (Paris) Fonds General 359 (same dies); Wien Münzkabinett GR10380 (same dies).
NGC CHOICE AU, Strike 5/5, Surface 4/5, FINE STYLE. Superb, lustrous coin with full-head Nike and an very interesting figural symbol. Rare, with some 15 specimens in Market Records and 9 in the Pella database.