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Triton XIX, Lot: 145. Estimate $1500.
Sold for $2250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BITHYNIA, Kalchedon. Circa 210-195 BC. AR Tetradrachm (34.5mm, 16.87 g, 1h). In the name and types of Lysimachos of Thrace. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΛYΣIMAXOY, Athena Nikephoros seated left, left arm resting on shield, transverse spear in background; ΔI to inner left; in exergue, grain ear left and KAΛ in exergue. Marinescu Issue 55, 122 (O48/R111); Türkoğlu L02c; HGC 7, 528; Bement 260 (same dies). EF, attractively toned. Well centered and struck. Very rare.


From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection, purchased from Ghassan Toubiya (Beirut), November 1981.