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322, Lot: 213. Estimate $300.
Sold for $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

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 Unpublished, but obverse dies by the same engraver are known for Lysimachi from Kyzikos: cf.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.