322, Lot: 213. Estimate $300. Sold for $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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MYSIA, Kyzikos. Mid 3rd century BC. AR Tetradrachm (33mm, 17.06 g, 12h). In the name and types of Lysimachos of Thrace. 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; in exergue, fish hook(?) left. Unpublished, but obverse dies by the same engraver are known for Lysimachi from Kyzikos: cf. SNG France 2523–4 and G.K. Jenkins, "A Hellenistic Hoard from Mesopotamia,"
MN 13 (1967), 39. VF, lightly toned. Apparently unique.