Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 171. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004.  Sold For $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of THRACE. Lysimachos. 323-281 BC. AV Stater (8.31 gm). Kalchedon mint. Circa 205-195 BC. Diademed head of deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon / BASILEWS LUSIMACOU, Athena Nikephoros seated left, holding Nike in extended right hand, left arm resting on shield, spear behind; F to inner left, bull kneeling left in exergue. Seyrig, Monnaies pl. 25, 25 (same dies); Müller 358. VF. ($1500)

This issue in the name of Lysimachos is characterized by the symbol of a bull kneeling left, rather than butting. It has been attributed by Seyrig to the mint of Kalchedon on the grounds that one variety of the issue has the letter K on the throne. The occasion for this issue was probably some special event of the Bouphonia, such as those celebrated at Athens, Magnesia, and Kios, when the sacrificial bull of Zeus Poleius was encouraged to freely bend down and 'offer' itself for sacrifice.