Alexandrine Stater in Name of Lysimachos

CNG 93, Lot: 119. Estimate $5000. Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of THRACE. Lysimachos. 305-281 BC. AV Stater (19mm, 8.51 g, 12h). In the types of Alexander III of Macedon. Sestos mint. Struck circa 299/8-297/6 BC. Head of Athena right, wearing necklace and crested Corinthian helmet decorated with coiled serpent / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΛYΣIMAXOY, Nike standing left, holding wreath in extended right hand and cradling stylis in left arm; in left field, forepart of lion left above ΔI within circle; boukranion below left wing. Thompson 20; Price L4; Müller –; SNG Lockett 1243 (same obv. die); Bement 885 (same dies); Jameson 2029 (same obv. die); N. Sicurella, “Gold stater of Lysimachus revisited,” The Celator 13/1 (January 1999), p. 35, fig. 3 (this coin). Near EF, a little die rust, some field marks, scuff and light deposits on reverse. Very rare Alexandrine type in the name of Lysimachos.