Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 135. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of THRACE. Lysimachos. 305-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.26 g, 8h). Amphipolis mint. Struck circa 288/7-282/1 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΛYΣIMAXOY, Athena Nikephoros seated left, left arm resting on shield, spear behind; race torch to inner left, bee to outer right. Thompson 187; Müller 445a. Near EF. Bold portrait struck in high relief.