CNG 85, Lot: 224. Estimate $750. Sold for $625. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of THRACE. Lysimachos. 305-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 17.26 g, 12h). Lampsakos mint. Struck 297/6-282/1 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon / Athena Nikephoros seated left, left arm resting on shield, spear behind; monogram to inner left, monogram (or letter?) in exergue. Cf. Thompson 44-8, otherwise unpublished. Good VF, toned.

While none of the Lampsakos issue have a monogram or letter in the exergue, the obverse for this example is die linked to CNG 81, 210 (Thompson 45), and must have been engraved by the same hand as an obverse die for Thompson 43 (cf. CNG 81, 211 and CNG 82, 343).