CIUS SILVER LYSIMACHUS TYPE TETRADRACHM – RARE EARLY EMISSION – VF GREEK BITHYNIA COIN (Inv. 20446)

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20446. BITHYNIA. CIUS. CIVIC ISSUE IN THE NAME AND TYPES OF KING LYSIMACHUS OF THRACE, ca. 285–250 BC.
Silver Tetradrachm of Lysimachus type, 17.00 g, 28 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 ΓAT monogram 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 6, no. 14 (obverse 5/reverse 13); Thompson 185; Müller 370 (as Heraclea Pontica).
VF, some circulation marks, issue 6 is a very rare emission with Marinescu citing only seven other specimens from three different pairs of dies.