CNG 99, Lot: 46. Estimate $500. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Byzantion. Circa 80-76 BC. AR Tetradrachm (33mm, 16.20 g, 12h). In the name and types of Lysimachos. 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, BY on throne. Callataÿ Group 4, dies D7/R– (unlisted rev. die); SNG Copenhagen 1139 (same obv. die). Near EF, softly struck on obverse.