ALEXANDER III THE GREAT GOLD STATER – SELEUCID PERIOD ISSUE OF BABYLON – AU FINE STYLE NGC GRADED GREEK COIN (Inv. 20220)

$9,500.00

20220. MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. ALEXANDER III, THE GREAT, 336–323 BC.
Gold Stater, 8.55 g, 18 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 snake 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, HP monogram below right wing.
Price 3716 var. (Price describes this variety as having a sphinx ornament on the helmet and does not list the more common variety that uses the coiled snake as here); SC 81.9 var. (snake not sphinx).
NGC graded as AU, Strike 4/5, Surface4/5, FINE STYLE, “flan flaw,” minor encrustation on reverse.