324, Lot: 91. Estimate $300. Sold for $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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MYSIA, Kyzikos. Mid 3rd century BC. AR Tetradrachm (33mm, 16.99 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, transverse spear in background; monogram to inner left; fish hook(?) in exergue. Unpublished, but obverse dies by the same engraver are known for Lysimachi from Kyzikos: cf.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; also see CNG eAuction 322, lot 213 for a very similar coin with the same symbol in the exergue, but a different monogram. Good VF, light marks and scratches.