ALEXANDER THE GREAT GOLD STATER – RARE LIFETIME/EARLY POSTHUMOUS ISSUE OF SIDON – XF NGC GRADED GREEK KINGDOM OF MACEDON COIN (Inv. 20546)

$7,500.00

20546. MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. ALEXANDER III, THE GREAT, 336–323 BC.
Gold Stater, 8.63 g, 17 mm. Lifetime-early posthumous issue of Sidon, undated, but ca. 333–305 BC.
Obv. Head of Athena right, wearing large Corinthian helmet with rampant griffin ornament below the plume. Rev. ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, Nike standing, her hair gathered in a topknot, looking left, holding wreath in right hand and stylis over left shoulder, thunderbolt below right wing.
Price 3461; SNG Delepierre 978 = Bibliothèque Nationale 1966.453.978.
NGC graded XF, Strike 4/5, Surface 4/5, an extremely rare variety with only the Paris specimen cited by Price as well as the Pella database.