Rare Ainos Mint

Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 378. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of THRACE. Lysimachos. 305-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.15 g, 6h). Ainos mint. Struck circa 283/2 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon / Athena Nikephoros seated left, left arm resting on shield, spear behind; to inner left, lion head left above enthroned cult statue; monogram on throne. Thompson 257; Müller 119. EF, underlying luster, minor flat spots in hair on obverse.