LYSIMACHUS SILVER TETRADRACHM – RARE POSTHUMOUS ISSUE OF CIUS – CHOICE XF NGC GRADED GREEK BITHYNIA COIN (Inv. 21373)

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21373. 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. 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, 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 32, no. 118 (O42/R106); Müller 412.
NGC CHOICE XF 4/5, 4/5, “die shift,” seldom seen, Marinescu notes only five specimens for issue 32 from two die combinations.