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 and three other specimens on CoinArchives.