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CNG 84, Lot: 183. Estimate $2000.
Sold for $4300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of THRACE. Lysimachos. 305-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 17.06 g, 1h). Alexandreia Troas mint. Struck 297/6-282/1 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon / Athena Nikephoros seated left, spear behind; to inner left, monogram above bee; thunderbolt in exergue. Meadows, Earliest 19 (O12/R38); Thompson 159; Müller 433. EF, slight die rust on obverse, minor die shift on reverse. Attractive style. Rare.


From the Tuck Pittman Collection. Ex Spink Numismatic Circular CXII.5 (November 2004), no. GK1379.