PHILIP III ALEXANDER TYPE GOLD STATER – EXTREMELY RARE ISSUE OF COLOPHON – NGC MS GREEK MACEDONIAN COIN (INV. 21571)

$13,850.00

21571. MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. PHILIP III, 323–317 BC.
Gold Stater of Alexander type, 8.57 g, 19 mm. Issue of Colophon, ca. 322–319 BC.
Obv. Head of Athena right, wearing a large Corinthian helmet with snake ornament below the plume. Rev. ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΥ, Nike standing, looking left, holding wreath in right hand and stylis over left shoulder, tripod in left field.
Price P41; Münzkabinett Berlin 18254692 (same dies, pierced); SNG Copenhagen 1072.
Ex Vilmar Numismatics inv. 12299 (2018), ex CNG 105, 5/20/2017, lot 82.
NGC MS, Strike 4/5, Surface 3/5, lustrous, struck on a broad planchet, and a rare variety with only two other specimens in the auction records of the last 25 years, in addition to the Berlin piece in Pella and the Copenhagen specimen cited by Price.