Alexandrine Drachms from the Sicurella Collection

322, Lot: 107. Estimate $100. Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of THRACE, Macedonian. Lysimachos. 305-281 BC. AR Drachm (17mm, 4.25 g, 2h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Sestos mint. Struck circa 301/0-300/299 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, forepart of lion left above monogram; monogram below throne. Unpublished. VF, toned, obverse slightly off center.

From the Nicholas Sicurella Collection.

Although unpublished, this coin is obverse die linked to the plate coin of Price L5 and CNG 60, lot 477a (an example of Thompson 22 and Price L7).