CIUS SILVER LYSIMACHUS TYPE TETRADRACHM – VERY RARE EARLY EMISSION – NEAR VF GREEK BITHYNIA COIN (Inv. 20447)

$1,450.00

20447. BITHYNIA. CIUS. CIVIC ISSUE IN THE NAME AND TYPES OF KING LYSIMACHUS OF THRACE, ca. 285–250 BC.
Silver Tetradrachm of Lysimachus type, 16.89 g, 30 mm. Issue of ca. 285-275 BC.
Obv. Head of deified Alexander the Great right, with the horn of Ammon. Rev. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΛΥΣΙΜΑXΟΥ, Athena enthroned left, holding Nike crowning Lysimachus’ name, ΦIΛ monogram in outer left field, ME above HPA monograms in left field, club in exergue.
Marinescu, “Lysimachi Coinage of Cius, Bithynia,” in Ex Nummis Lux, Studies in Ancient Numismatics in Honour of Dimitar Draganov (2017), issue 5, no. 12 (obverse 5/reverse 11); Thompson 184; Müller 369 (as Heraclea Pontica).
NEAR VF, some circulation marks, issue 5 is a very rare emission with Marinescu citing only three other specimens from two different pairs of dies
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