Lot 23
Lot 30023 > MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. Alexander III the Great (336-323 BC). AV quarter-stater (11mm, 2.15 gm, 5h). NGC Choice AU 5/5 - 4/5. Late lifetime-early posthumous issue of Amphipolis, under Antipater, ca. 325-319 BC. Head of Athena right, wearing necklace and triple-crested Corinthian helmet with short divergent crest ends pushed back on head, the bowl decorated with coiled serpent right, hair falling straight in three tight spiral curls and loose over left shoulder / AΛEΞA/NΔPOY, horizontal bow and club left, horizontal thunderbolt above. Price 165. Ex Collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams (Classical Numismatic Group, Auction 100, 7 October 2015), lot 47; Pars Coins, private sale, September 2000 Unusual legend break. Price does not differentiate the legend breaks and positions on the reverse, but there are three known varieties: top to bottom N/Δ (most common); top to bottom A/N; and bottom to top N/Δ.
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