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Triton XVIII, Lot: 422. Estimate $1000.
Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of THRACE, Macedonian. Lysimachos. 305-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 17.17 g, 12h). Magnesia on the Maeander 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; monogram in wreath to outer left. Thompson 101; Müller 301; Armenak 825–6; Kampmann p. 29 (this coin); de Luynes 1817 (same obv. die); Meydancikkale 3624. Good VF, toned, a couple light scuffs and patch of die rust on reverse. Struck in high relief.


From the collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich. Ex Leu 74 (19 October 1998), lot 166.