ALEXANDER THE GREAT GOLD STATER – RARE LIFETIME ISSUE OF SIDON WITH FULL HEAD NIKE – CHOICE AU NGC GRADED GREEK MACEDONIAN KINGDOM COIN (Inv. 20375)

$12,500.00

20375. MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. ALEXANDER III, THE GREAT, 336–323 BC.
Gold Stater, 8.60 g, 18 mm. Lifetime issue of Sidon, ca. 332/1–324/3 BC
Obv. Head of Athena right, wearing large Corinthian helmet with griffin ornament below the plume. Rev. [Α]ΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, Nike standing, her hair gathered in a topknot, looking left, holding wreath in right hand and stylis over left shoulder, ΣI below left wing, palm below right wing.
Price 3472; Newell, The Dated Alexander Coinage of Sidon and Ake, 13 (dies P/β); British Museum 1878,0301.85 (same dies).
NGC graded CH AU, Strike 5/5, Surface 4/5, attractive and lustrous, with a full head Nike. An extremely rare variety with Pella citing two specimens (ANS and British Museum, both from the same obverse die); CoinArchives cites four other specimens of this Price variety.