LYSIMACHUS SILVER TETRADRACHM OF CIUS – EXTREMELY RARE EMISSION PUBLISHED AND PLATED IN MARINESCU’S DIE STUDY OF THE MINT – CHOICE VF NGC GRADED GREEK THRACE COIN (Inv. 20535)

$4,500.00

20535. BITHYNIA. CIUS. CIVIC ISSUE IN THE NAME AND TYPES OF KING LYSIMACHUS OF THRACE, ca. 280-250 BC.
Silver Tetradrachm of Lysimachus type, 16.97 g, 28 mm. Issue of ca. late 250s 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, club in outer left field, EYM monogram in left field, bow case and ΣΩ ? monogram in exergue.
Published: Marinescu, “Lysimachi Coinage of Cius, Bithynia,” in Ex Nummis Lux, Studies in Ancient Numismatics in Honour of Dimitar Draganov (2017), issue 28, no. 112 (Obv, 39/Rev. 101, this coin listed and illustrated).
Ex Gemini XI, 1/12/2014, lot 104.
NGC graded CHOICE VF, Strike 5/5, Surface 3/5, “Fine Style,” “brushed,” publication status noted on label.
An extremely rare coin, this is one of only two specimens that Marinescu published for issue 28 with the large EYM monogram and only piece from this pair of dies.