Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 271. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $2000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of THRACE. Lysimachos. 305-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.10 gm, 12h). Magnesia ad Maeandrum mint. Struck 297/6-282/1 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon / BASILEWS LUSIMACO-[U], Athena seated left, holding Nike in extended right hand, left arm resting on shield, spear behind; monogram to inner left. Thompson 101; Müller -; Meydancikkale 2634 (same obverse die). EF, lightly toned, small die break in obverse field. Very high-relief portrait. ($2000)

See lot 260 for more information on the coinage of Lysimachos.