Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 384. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of THRACE. Lysimachos. 305-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.31 g, 9h). Uncertain mint. Struck circa 280-270 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon / Athena Nikephoros seated left, left arm resting on shield, spear behind; monograms to inner left and outer right. CH VI, fig. 3, 6 (same dies), otherwise unpublished. EF, lightly toned.

Although the mint is uncertain, the terminus ante quem of this issue is fixed by the closure date of the the 1970 Myron hoard, which contained the sole published example.