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NYINC Signature Sale 3063 16-17 Jan 2018
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THRACIAN KINGDOM. Scostocus, under Lysimachus (ca. 285/281-273/2 BC). AR tetradrachm (16.86 gm). NGC XF 4/5 - 5/5. Kabyle, under Lysimachus of Thrace. Diademed head of Alexander the Great right, with horn of Ammon / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟΥ, Athena enthroned left, left elbow on shield, holding Nike in right hand, transverse spear behind; globe on pillar in inner left field, ΣKOΣTOKOY in exergue. HGC 3.2, 1471. Fischer Bosser 2009, 4.
This Lysimachus-type tetradrachm ialso bears the name of Scostocus, an otherwise unknown Thracian dynast of the early-mid third century BC. He was once thought to have been a successor to Lysimachus; now it is believed he was a local ruler permitted by Lysimachus to add his own name to his overlord's coinage. After the long, tumultuous reign of the Macedonian Lysimachus, Thrace reverted to the rule of dynasts from the powerful Odrysian tribe, who maintained a hold on the region until it became a Roman client kingdom in the 1st century BC.
HID02901242017
Estimate: 2000-2500 USD
THRACIAN KINGDOM. Scostocus, under Lysimachus (ca. 285/281-273/2 BC). AR tetradrachm (16.86 gm). NGC XF 4/5 - 5/5. Kabyle, under Lysimachus of Thrace. Diademed head of Alexander the Great right, with horn of Ammon / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟΥ, Athena enthroned left, left elbow on shield, holding Nike in right hand, transverse spear behind; globe on pillar in inner left field, ΣKOΣTOKOY in exergue. HGC 3.2, 1471. Fischer Bosser 2009, 4.
This Lysimachus-type tetradrachm ialso bears the name of Scostocus, an otherwise unknown Thracian dynast of the early-mid third century BC. He was once thought to have been a successor to Lysimachus; now it is believed he was a local ruler permitted by Lysimachus to add his own name to his overlord's coinage. After the long, tumultuous reign of the Macedonian Lysimachus, Thrace reverted to the rule of dynasts from the powerful Odrysian tribe, who maintained a hold on the region until it became a Roman client kingdom in the 1st century BC.
HID02901242017
Estimate: 2000-2500 USD