ALEXANDER THE GREAT GOLD STATER – UNIQUE AND UNLISTED IN PRICE ISSUE OF LAMPSACUS – CHOICE XF NGC GRADED GREEK MACEDONIAN KINGDOM COIN (Inv. 20993)

$12,000.00

20993. KINGDOM OF MACEDON. ALEXANDER III, THE GREAT, 336–323 BC.
Gold Stater, 8.56 g, 18 mm. Posthumous issue of Lampsacus, ca. 310–301 BC.
Obv. Head of Athena right, wearing large Corinthian helmet with coiled snake ornament below the plume. Rev. ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, Nike standing, looking left, holding wreath in right hand and stylis over left shoulder, PO monogram in left field, Pegasus protome below left wing.
Price 1388 var. (different placement of symbols).
NGC graded CHOICE XF, Strike 5/5, Surface 5/5, “unlisted in M. Price,” well centered with a “full–head” Nike.

The winged horse protome used as a mint mark on this coin has a very long history at Lampsacus, extending back to the earliest silver fractions struck by the city in the first half of the fifth century BC. This particular specimen is possibly unique with this arrangement of symbols, differing from Price 1388 in that the Pegasus protome is moved from left field to underneath the left wing. The Pella database records three specimens of Price 1388 where the monogram and protome appear together in left field (American Numismatic Society, Münzkabinett Berlin and British Museum) and all are struck from the same obverse die as this specimen. There are no other examples of this new variant in recent market records, indicating that this coin is at present unique.