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Auction XIX  26-27 Mar 2020
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Lot 399

Estimate: 3000 GBP
Price realized: 2600 GBP
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Kings of Thrace, Lysimachos AV Stater. In the types of Alexander III of Macedon. Sestos, circa 299/8-297/6 BC. Head of Athena right, wearing necklace and crested Corinthian helmet decorated with coiled serpent / Nike standing left, holding wreath and stylis in left arm; BAΣIΛEΩΣ and forepart of lion above ΔI within circle to left, bukranion below left wing, ΛYΣIMAXOY to right. Thompson 20; Price L4; Müller -; SNG Lockett 1243 (same obv. die); Bement 885 (same obv. die); Jameson 2029 (same obv. die); N. Sicurella, "Gold stater of Lysimachus revisited," The Celator 13/1 (January 1999), p. 35, fig. 3. 8.56g, 18mm, 12h.

Good Very Fine; small scrapes and contact marks to obv. Extremely Rare.

Ex Thrax Collection, formed in London between 1991 and 2018;
Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., Auction XIII, 23rd March 2017, lot 202.
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