ALEXANDER THE GREAT GOLD STATER – RARE LIFETIME ISSUE OF SIDON – AU NGC GRADED GREEK MACEDONIAN COIN (Inv. 20975)

$7,800.00

20975. MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. ALEXANDER III, THE GREAT, 336–323 BC.
Gold Stater, 8.61 g, 18 mm. LIFETIME ISSUE of Sidon, ca. 332/1–324 BC.
Obv. Head of Athena right, wearing large Corinthian helmet with rampant griffin ornament below the plume. Rev. AΛEΞANΔPOY, Nike standing, her hair gathered in a topknot, looking left, holding wreath in right hand and stylis, palm with fillets below left wing.
Price 3471.
NGC graded AU, Strike 4/5, Surface 3/5, “brushed,” a rare variety with three specimens in the Pella database (British Museum, Münzkabinett Berlin, and Bibliothèque nationale de France) as well as seven on CoinArchives.