Impressive Offering of Artistic Lysimachos Tetradrachms

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 121. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of THRACE. Lysimachos. 305-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.95 g, 11h). Ainos mint. Struck after 281 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon / BASILEWS LUSIMACOU, Athena Nikephoros seated left, left arm resting on shield, spear behind; filleted thyrsos to outer left, enthroned cult statue to inner left. Thompson -; Meydancikkale 2690 var. (same obv. die, different symbol); Müller 122; CNG 67, lot 503 (same dies). Superb EF. Bold style.