Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 383. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of THRACE. Lysimachos. 305-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.78 g, 11h). Uncertain mint. Struck circa 297/6-282/1 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon / Athena Nikephoros seated left, left arm resting on shield, spear behind; uncertain control mark to inner left. Thompson -; Müller -; T.R. Martin. “A third century BC hoard from Thessaly at the ANS (IGCH 168),” MN 26 (1981), 566 var. (no control marks; same obv. die). Good VF, double struck on reverse.