★ An attractive stater from 'Kolophon' ★

KINGS OF MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’, 336-323 BC. Stater (Gold, 19 mm, 8.58 g, 11 h), 'Kolophon' (?), struck under Antigonos I Monophthalmos, circa 319-310. Head of Athena to right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet decorated with a coiled serpent. Rev. AΛEΞANΔΡOΥ Nike standing front, head to left, with her wings spread, holding laurel wreath in her right hand and stylis in her left; to left, lyre. Hersh, Additions, -. Price 1772 var. (ΕΛΙ under lyre). Some die rust on the obverse and very light doubling on the reverse, otherwise, extremely fine.

From the collection of R. Wightman, formed from the late 1970s to the early 2000s.