★ A lustrous stater of Alexander III with an exceptional obverse ★

KINGS OF MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’, 336-323 BC. Stater (Gold, 18 mm, 8.60 g, 6 h), Babylon, struck under Peithon, circa 315-311. Head of Athena to right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet decorated with a coiled serpent. Rev. [BAΣIΛΕΩΣ] - AΛEΞANΔΡOΥ Nike standing front, head to left, with her wings spread, holding laurel wreath in her right hand and stylis in her left; to lower left, ΘE; to lower right, monogram within wreath. Price 3710. Lustrous and with an exceptionally attractive obverse. Tiny marks and the reverse struck slightly off center, otherwise, virtually as struck.

From a German collection, formed in the late 1990s and early 2000s.