Sharply Struck

252, Lot: 15. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of THRACE. Lysimachos. 305-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 17.05 g, 1h). Alexandreia Troas 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; to inner left, monogram above bee; thunderbolt in exergue. Meadows, Earliest 19a (O12/R39 – this coin); Thompson 159. EF, lightly toned, slightly flat on nose. Great metal and wonderful detail.

Ex Peus 376 (29 October 2003), lot 309.