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CNG 93, Lot: 97. Estimate $750.
Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Byzantion. Circa 260-245 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 16.83 g, 12h). In the name and types of Lysimachos. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon / Athena Nikephoros seated left, left arm resting on shield, transverse spear in background; monogram to inner left. Marinescu Issue 16, 46 (dies 23/43); Hunterian 82; M. Thompson, “A Countermarked Hoard from Büyükçekmece,” MN 6 (1954), 45 (same dies). Good VF, toned, light scuffing on obverse, small deposit on throne.


From the Kelly J. Krizan, M.D. Collection. Ex Freeman & Sear 3 (10 December 1996), lot 223.