Triton XVI, Lot: 263. Estimate $5000. Sold for $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of THRACE. Lysimachos. 305-281 BC. AV Stater (18mm, 8.55 g, 12h). Alexandreia Troas mint. Struck circa 297/6-282/1 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΛYΣIMAXOY, Athena Nikephoros seated left, left arm resting on shield, transverse spear in background; ΘE monogram to outer left, cornucopia to inner left. Meadows,
Earliest 33b (A5/P11 – this coin); Thompson 143; Müller 96. Near EF, underlying luster.
Ex B.C. Prichard Collection (Sotheby & Co., 21 February 1929), lot 52; Rous Collection (Bourgey, 29 May 1911), lot 75.