Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 117. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007.  Sold For $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of THRACE. Lysimachos. 305-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.78 g, 11h). Uncertain mint. Posthumous issue, circa 281-200 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon / Athena Nikephoros seated left, spear behind; monogram to inner left. Unpublished. Good VF, toned.

The monogram on this issue most often occurs on the tetradrachms of Alexandreia Troas. Nonetheless, it is always accompanied by other symbols or monograms, and various elements of the types clearly diverge from those found on the coins of Alexandreia, such that attribution to that mint is doubtful. Only rarely does this monogram appear on the Lysimachi of other cities, but, for similar reasons, an attribution to any is also uncertain.