366, Lot: 407. Estimate $750. Sold for $1150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of THRACE, Macedonian. Lysimachos. 305-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 17.15 g, 9h). Pella mint. Struck 286/5-282/1 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon / Athena Nikephoros seated left, left arm resting on shield, spear in background; to inner left, monogram in circle above arm, monogram below. Thompson 244 var. (monogram above arm); Müller –. Good VF, toned. Rare issue.

Ex Bowers & Ruddy (9 June 1980), lot 99; A. Hess Nachf. [157] (18 March 1918), lot 284; Jos. Hamburger [7] (17 June 1908), lot 414; J. Hirsch XIV (27 November 1905), lot 270.

Struck from the same obverse die as the illustration of Thompson 246.