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ID:
l22v
Type:
Greek
Region:
THRACIAN KINGS AND DYNASTS
Issuer:
Lysimachos
Date Ruled:
305-281 BC
Metal:
Gold
Denomination:
Stater
Struck / Cast:
struck
Date Struck:
305-281 BC
Weight:
8.51 g
Die Axis:
2 h
Obverse Description:
Head of Athena right, wearing triple-crested Corinthian helmet decorated with a coiled serpent
Reverse Legend:
ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟΥ
Reverse Description:
Nike standing left, holding laurel wreath in extended right hand and cradling stylis against left arm; in left field, forepart of lion left above race torch; pentagram below left wing
Mint:
Colophon
Primary Reference:
Price L22 var. (tetradrachm)
Photograph Credit:
LHS Numismatik AG
Source:
http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=14325
Special Comments:
Extremely rare, apparently unpublished and probably unique.
Price Sold For:
8,000 Swiss Franc
Grade:
EF
Notes:
The gold staters bearing the types of Alexander with the name of Lysimachos are astonishingly rare: only a very few coins are known, solely from the mints of Sestos, Lampsakos, Kolophon, Magnesia and Sardes. They were only issued for about two years before being replaced by the more familiar gold staters struck in the name of Lysimachos but bearing a portrait of the deified Alexander on the obverse and a seated figure of Athena on the reverse (as the following lot). While Kolophon is known to have struck a few gold staters in the name of Alexander and an equally small number of staters in the name of and with the types of Philip II, only one other stater in the name of Lysimachos from Kolophon has been described (UBS 76, 22 January 2008, 1241 = Sotheby´s 19 June 1991 (Hunt IV), 183 = Bank Leu 7, 9 May 1973, 117).
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