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421, Lot: 33. Estimate $300.
Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of THRACE, Macedonian. Lysimachos. 305-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 17.24 g, 3h). Uncertain mint, possibly Ephesos. 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, ΣTH in exergue. Thompson –; Müller –; MG p. 55, 65; CH VI, 23, fig. 3, 10. VF, toned.


From the collection of José Miguel Márquez del Prado. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 84 (5 May 2010), lot 202.

The portrait style on this issue is rather unusual, but is similar to that found on Lysimachos type tetradrachms from Ephesos (Thompson 166–7).