Savoca Coins
Online Auction 26 | Silver 14 Oct 2018
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Kings of Thrace. Uncertain mint or Ainos. Macedonian. Lysimachos 305-281 BC.
Tetradrachm AR
27mm., 16,71g.
Head of the deified Alexander the Great facing right, wearing a diadem and the horn of Ammon / BAΣIΛEΩ[Σ] ΛYΣIMAXOY, Athena, helmeted, enthroned left, holding Nike, crowning the king's name, in her outstretched right hand and resting her left elbow on a shield at her side, behind her rests a spear, kerykeion ligate with Π to inner left, bee to outer right.
nearly very fine, test cut on reverse
Cf. Thompson 190 (Amphipolis, kerykeion not ligate); cf. Müller 112 var. (Ainos, kerykeion not ligate).
According to Müller Ludwig, Die Münzen des Thracischen Königs Lysimachus, pg. 51-52, the Π letter refers to the city of Poltyobria or Poltymbria, whose founder was the King Poltys.
Tetradrachm AR
27mm., 16,71g.
Head of the deified Alexander the Great facing right, wearing a diadem and the horn of Ammon / BAΣIΛEΩ[Σ] ΛYΣIMAXOY, Athena, helmeted, enthroned left, holding Nike, crowning the king's name, in her outstretched right hand and resting her left elbow on a shield at her side, behind her rests a spear, kerykeion ligate with Π to inner left, bee to outer right.
nearly very fine, test cut on reverse
Cf. Thompson 190 (Amphipolis, kerykeion not ligate); cf. Müller 112 var. (Ainos, kerykeion not ligate).
According to Müller Ludwig, Die Münzen des Thracischen Königs Lysimachus, pg. 51-52, the Π letter refers to the city of Poltyobria or Poltymbria, whose founder was the King Poltys.