TENEDOS LYSIMACHUS TYPE TETRADRACHM – RARE EMISSION WITH HERM – CHOICE VF NGC GRADED GREEK TROAS COIN (Inv. 18052)

$2,750.00

18052. TROAS. TENEDOS. CIVIC ISSUE IN THE NAME AND TYPES OF LYSIMACHUS OF THRACE, ca. 280–250 BC.
Silver Tetradrachm of Lysimachus type, 16.94 g, 33 mm. Issue of ca. 270–260 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, herm in outer left field, A in left field, labrys (double–axe) in exergue.
Meadows, Double Axe, Group B, no. 148 (same dies).
NGC graded CHOICE VF, Strike 4/5, Surface 2/5, “test punch,” “brushed,” very rare emission with only four specimens recorded by Meadows.