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MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. Alexander III the Great (336-323 BC). AV stater (18mm, 8.55 gm, 3h). NGC Choice AU 5/5 - 3/5, Fine Style. Posthumous issue of 'Babylon', under Antigonus Monopthalmus, commander in Mesopotamia, 317-311 BC. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet pushed back on head, the bowl decorated with coiled serpent right / ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ / ΒΑ-ΣΙΛΕΩΣ, Nike standing left, wreath in outstretched right hand, stylis cradled on left arm; globule above head of satyr left below wing in left field, HYP monogram inside wreath below wing in right field. Price 3736. Müller 730.
From the Morris Collection. Ex. Frank L. Kovacs MBS 13 (3 June 1998), lot 25.
The Satyr's head seen here bears a striking resemblance to the head of Pan later adopted by the grandson of Antigonus Monopthalmus, Antigonus Gonatas, as his royal emblem during his reign as king of Macedon, 277-239 BC.
HID02901242017
Estimate: 3000-4000 USD
MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. Alexander III the Great (336-323 BC). AV stater (18mm, 8.55 gm, 3h). NGC Choice AU 5/5 - 3/5, Fine Style. Posthumous issue of 'Babylon', under Antigonus Monopthalmus, commander in Mesopotamia, 317-311 BC. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet pushed back on head, the bowl decorated with coiled serpent right / ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ / ΒΑ-ΣΙΛΕΩΣ, Nike standing left, wreath in outstretched right hand, stylis cradled on left arm; globule above head of satyr left below wing in left field, HYP monogram inside wreath below wing in right field. Price 3736. Müller 730.
From the Morris Collection. Ex. Frank L. Kovacs MBS 13 (3 June 1998), lot 25.
The Satyr's head seen here bears a striking resemblance to the head of Pan later adopted by the grandson of Antigonus Monopthalmus, Antigonus Gonatas, as his royal emblem during his reign as king of Macedon, 277-239 BC.
HID02901242017
Estimate: 3000-4000 USD