Watch List notes:

Kings of Macedon, Alexander III, the Great (336-323 BC), gold stater, uncertain eastern mint, c. 325-300 BC, head of Athena right wearing crested Corinthian helmet, the bowl decorated with coiled serpent, rev., ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡ[ΟΥ] ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ, Nike standing left holding wreath and ship's stylis, 8.60g, die axis 9.00, a few minor marks but good extremely fine and with an exceptional head of Athena. This coin published: Price p. 500, 3993A; de Sartiges 199; Gerald Hoberman, The Art of Coins and their Photography, London, 1982, pp. 63 and 78-9. Provenance: Vicomte de Sartiges Collection, Paris; Kunstfreund sale (Charles Gillet Collection), Bank Leu/Münzen und Medaillen, Zurich, 28 May 1974, lot 234; Gerald Hoberman Collection; DNW, London, 27 September 2011, lot 2004. Note: In recording this coin Price suggested that there was a "branch (?)" positioned below the truncation of Athena but it is much more likely to represent a continuation of the elaborate crest emerging from behind her lower strands of hair. Nevertheless the exquisite style of Athena's head on the present coin is without parallel within the recorded coinage of Alexander the Great and in this regard it appears to be unique. In the 1974 Kunstfreund auction it realised 36,000 CHF, almost three times its estimate. (20000 - 30000 GBP)