THRACIAN KINGDOM. Lysimachus (305-281 BC). AR tetradrachm (29mm, 17.09 gm, 8h). NGC XF 5/5 - 3/5, scuff. Lifetime or early posthumous issue of uncertain mint, perhaps Aenus or Lysimacheia, ca. 280s-260s BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΛYΣIMAXOY, Athena seated left, left arm resting on shield, spear behind, holding Nike; lion's forepart (with horn of Ammon?) over monogram in inner left field, KA monogram in exergue. Thompson --, cf. 257 (Aenus, dies of similar syle). Cf. Muller 37 (issue with lion protome, no monograms). Struck on a broad flan. This symbol / monogram combination unrecorded. The KA monogram in the exergue and the ΔOI monogram in the inner left field are both recorded by Marinescu in his corpus on the posthumous Lysimachi of Calchedon, but not in these positions, and with no lion protome. Furthermore, the lion on this apparently unique tetradrachm is doubly interesting as the beast seems to sport the same ram's horn of Ammon worn by Alexander on the obverse!

HID09801242017

To the auctioneer's website