346, Lot: 17. Estimate $300. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of THRACE, Macedonian. Lysimachos. 305-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.75 g, 2h). Uncertain mint. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon / Athena Nikephoros seated left, left arm resting on shield, spear behind; to inner left, large forepart of lion left. Cf. Thompson 23 and 40 (for type); cf. Müller 37 (for type). Near VF, minor double strike on reverse. Rare.

Both Thompson 23 (Sestos) and 40 (Lampsakos) have this same control mark on their reverse, but the lions there are depicted quite small, and the obverse style is markedly different from the present issue. In the ANS photofile, Seyrig had one example, from the same dies as this coin, which he placed under an uncertain mint.