Posthumous Alexander Issued Under Lysimachos

Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 365. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of THRACE. Lysimachos. 305-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.05 g, 6h). Amphipolis mint. Struck in the name of Alexander III, circa 288/7-282/1 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; monograms in left field and below throne. Price 535; Mathisen, Administrative, group 1, 9 (A10/P- [unlisted rev. die]). Near EF, a few minor deposits.

This coin is of the Alexander-type issue parallel to Thompson 204.