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109, Lot: 16. Estimate $500.
Sold for $470. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of THRACE. Lysimachos. 323-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 16.71 gm). Signed obverse die by Menod... Uncertain mint. Struck circa 297-282 BC. Head of deified Alexander right, wearing horn of Ammon; MHNOD below neck truncation / Athena Nikephoros seated left; SWSIQ (magistrate?) above knee. Meydancikkale -; Mektepini -; MG p. 55, 64; Müller 564 var. (no obverse die signature). VF, area of reverse roughness. Rare.

A rare signed tetradrachm of Lysimachos. With most magistrates represented by letters or monograms, the use of two partial names on this coin (Menodoros or Menodotos and Sosithos) might suggest that they are intended to be artists' signatures.