351, Lot: 63. Estimate $150. Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of THRACE, Macedonian. Lysimachos. 305-281 BC. AR Drachm (18.5mm, 4.23 g, 1h). Ephesos mint. Struck circa 294-287 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon / Athena Nikephoros seated left, left arm resting on shield, transverse spear in background; tripod to inner left, Z in exergue. Thompson 170 var. (monogram in exergue); Müller 335 var. (nothing in exergue); SNG Evelpidis 1116 corr. (exergue control; same obv. die); CNG 94, lot 179 (same dies); CNG 75, lot 114 corr. = Gorny & Mosch 152, lot 1287 (same obv. die). VF, lightly toned, minor die wear on obverse, flan flaw on reverse. Well centered. Rare variety.

From the Nicholas Sicurella Collection.

Struck from the same obverse die as specimens with ZI and ZII in exergue (see, respectively, NFA Summer MBS [June 1986], lot 162, and lot 66, below), as well as the type with the monogram in the exergue, per Thompson 170 (see M&M AG FPL 282, no. 11).