Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 855. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of THRACE. Lysimachos. 305-281 BC. AV Stater (8.45 g, 12h). Byzantion mint. Struck circa 110-101 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon / BASILEWS LUSIMACOU, Athena Nikephoros seated left, left arm resting on shield, spear behind; monogram to inner left, BY on throne, ornamented trident in exergue. Müller -; cf. De Callataÿ Group 2A, p. 122 (tetradrachms); cf. SNG Ashmolean 3759 (tetradrachm). EF, lustre around the devices. Unpublished as a stater. ($1000)

From the John F. Sullivan Collection.