440, Lot: 20. Estimate $100. Sold for $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of THRACE, Macedonian. Lysimachos. 305-281 BC. AR Drachm (17mm, 4.28 g, 12h). Abydos mint. Struck circa 301/0-300/299 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, forepart of lion left above monogram; below throne, head of griffin right. Thompson 64 corr. (monogram); Müller –; Price 1581 var. (position of monogram, symbol below throne); ADM II 405 (same obv. die); HGC 3, 1751c. Good VF, struck from altered reverse die (see below).

The left field control marks on the reverse of this coin appear to have been engraved over prior symbols that were erased in the die, resulting in a very weak strike in that area.