LYSIMACHUS SILVER TETRADRACHM – EARLY POSTHUMOUS ISSUE OF AMPHIPOLIS OR BYZANTIUM – CHOICE AU NGC GRADED GREEK THRACE COIN (Inv. 19624)

$3,300.00

19624. KINGDOM OF THRACE. LYSIMACHUS, 305–281 BC.
Silver Tetradrachm, 17.14 g, 29 mm. Early posthumous issue of Amphipolis or Byzantium, ca. 280–270 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, MΦ control monogram in left field, AP monogram below throne.
Thompson –; Marinescu, Making and Spending Money along the Bosporus: the Lysimachi Coinages Minted by Byzantium and Chalcedon and their Socio–Cultural Context (Columbia University Dissertation, 1996), issue 2, no. 4 (as Byzantium), other specimens include London (1898,0602.100) and Paris (R 2035).
NGC graded CHOICE AU, Strike 4/5, Surface 3/5, “brushed.” This coin is either among the very last issues of Amphipolis or the first issues of Byzantium, struck soon after Lysimachus’ death.