Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 150. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of THRACE. Lysimachos. 305-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.04 g, 12h). Magnesia am Maeander mint. Struck circa 299/8-297/6 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΛYΣIMAXOY, Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, monogram in wreath above lion forepart left; monogram below throne. Thompson 96; Price L31; Müller 2. Near EF, lightly toned, a hint of die rust. Well centered strike.