ALEXANDER III THE GREAT GOLD STATER – SELEUCID PERIOD ISSUE OF BABYLON – AU FINE STYLE NGC GRADED GREEK COIN (Inv. 20219)

$11,000.00

20219. MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. ALEXANDER III, THE GREAT, 336–323 BC.
Gold Stater, 8.53 g, 19 mm. Early posthumous issue of “Babylon” (Babylon I), ca. 311–300 BC, minted under Seleucus I, 312–281 BC.
Obv. Head of Athena right, wearing large Corinthian helmet with griffin ornament below the plume. Rev. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, Nike standing, looking left, holding wreath in right hand and stylis over left shoulder, MI in outer left field, MTP monogram in wreath below left wing.
Price 3749 corr. (Price describes this variety as having a sphinx ornament on the helmet – however, nearly all of the specimens in the Pella database depict the griffin, and only one piece with the snake, so he was likely mistaken in his cataloguing); SC 81.3 corr. (griffin not sphinx); Münzkabinett Berlin 18207734 (same obverse die).
NGC graded as AU, Strike 5/5, Surface 3/5, FINE STYLE.