MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. Alexander III the Great (336-323 BC). AV stater (19mm, 8.47 gm, 12h). NGC VF 4/5 - 4/5, die shift. Lifetime issue of Tarsus, under Balacros or Menes, ca. 332/1-327 BC. Head of Athena right, wearing triple-crested Corinthian helmet pushed back on head, short parallel crest ends, the bowl decorated with griffin leaping right, hair falling straight in three tight spiral curls / AΛEΞANΔPOY (legend curved outward), Nike standing facing, head left, wreath upward in right hand, stylis cradled on left arm; wreath in lower right field below wing. Price 3457 (Sidon). Recent scholarship by Le Rider (Alexander the Great: Coinage, Finances, and Policy [Philadelphia, 2007]) has reattributed this issue from Sidon to Tarsus, making this issue not only the first gold coins from Alexander at this mint, but the first issue of Alexander the Great new stater coinage period.

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