Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 270. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of THRACE. Lysimachos. 305-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.72 gm, 12h). Kolophon mint. Struck 299/8-297/6 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress / BASILEWS LUSIMACOU, Zeus seated left, holding eagle in extended right hand, spear in left; in left field, forepart of lion right above crescent; pentagram below throne. Thompson 123; Price L23; Müller 19. Good VF. Well centered on a full flan. ($750)

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