Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 269. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $3300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of THRACE. Lysimachos. 305-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.99 gm, 1h). Pergamon mint. Struck 287/6-282 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon; K below neck / BASILEWS LUSIMACOU, Athena seated left, holding Nike in extended right hand, left arm resting on shield, spear behind; N to outer left, cult statue to inner left, crescent in exergue. Thompson 225; Arnold-Biucci, Pergamene 63-65 (Obverse die 12); Meydancikkale 2679 (same obverse die); Müller 290. EF. Artistic dies. ($1500)

See lot 260 for more information on the coinage of Lysimachos.