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Ancients: THRACIAN KINGDOM. Lysimachus (305-281 BC). AR tetradrachm (28mm, 16.90 gm, 12h). NGC Choice AU★ 5/5 - 4/5, Fine Style....
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'Star' Signed Choice Lysimachus Tetradrachm
THRACIAN KINGDOM. Lysimachus (305-281 BC). AR tetradrachm (28mm,
16.90 gm, 12h). NGC Choice AU★ 5/5 - 4/5, Fine Style. Pergamum,
ca. 287/6-282 BC. Diademed head of deified Alexander III right,
wearing horn of Ammon; K below / BAΣIΛEΩΣ / ΛYΣIMAXOY, Athena
seated left, Nike crowning royal name in right hand, resting left
arm on grounded shield with lion-head boss, transverse spear in
background; herm left in outer left field, archaic xoanon (cult
image) in inner left field, ΕΠ monogram in exergue. Thompson,
Essays Robinson, 220 var. (monogram). Superb high-relief obverse
with both sides meticulously engraved in fine style, some rainbow
toning on obverse.The K-signed dies of Pergamum are often considered the finest style tetradrachm issue of Lysimachus. According to H.A. Cahn ("Frühhellenistiche Münzkunst, Kleine Schriften zur Münzkunde und Archäologie", Basel 1975, p. 121-126), this engraver may have been the same who designed, for the same mint, the dies of the famous portrait of Seleucus I on the silver tetradrachms of Philetaerus.
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