LYSIMACHUS SILVER TETRADRACHM – POSTHUMOUS ISSUE OF BYZANTIUM – VF NGC GRADED GREEK THRACE COIN (Inv. 21421)

$850.00

21421. THRACE. BYZANTIUM. CIVIC ISSUE IN THE NAME AND TYPES OF KING LYSIMACHUS OF THRACE, ca. 260–195 BC.
Silver Tetradrachm, 16.91 g, 30 mm. Issue of ca. 260s BC.
Obv. Head of deified Alexander the Great right, with the horn of Ammon. Rev. BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΛΥΣIMAXOΥ, Athena enthroned left, holding Nike crowning Lysimachus’ name, AE control monogram in left field.
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 12, no. 28 (same dies); Müller 524 (as “incerti”).
NGC VF, Strike 4/5, Surface 3/5.