Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 272. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of THRACE. Lysimachos. 305-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.19 gm, 12h). Magnesia ad Maeandrum mint. Struck 297/6-282/1 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon / BASILEWS LUSIMACOU, Athena seated left, holding Nike in extended right hand, left arm resting on shield, spear behind; monogram to inner left. Thompson 113; Müller -. EF, attractive toning around devices, light scratch in obverse field. ($2000)

From the William and Louise Fielder Collection.

See lot 260 for more information on the coinage of Lysimachos.