★ Uncertain head or tragic mask? ★
Kings of Thrace. Uncertain mint. Macedonian. Lysimachos 305-281 BC. Struck 288/7-282/1 BC
Tetradrachm AR
29mm., 16,91g.
Diademed head of the deified Alexander the Great to right with horn of Ammon over his ear / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΛΥΣIMAXOΥ, Athena seated to left on throne, leaning her left elbow on her shield decorated with lion’s head and holding Nike, crowning the king’s name, in her right, behind, transverse spear with point below left, ΣΩ monogram retrogade above uncertain head (tragic mask ?) facing left to inner left, monogram in exergue.
good very fine
Thompson -; Müller 462 var. (monogram not retrogade).