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THRACIAN KINGDOM. Lysimachus (305-281 BC). AR tetradrachm (29mm, 16.32 gm, 12h). NGC XF 4/5 - 3/5, Fine Style. Pergamum, ca. 287/6-282 BC. Diademed head of deified Alexander III right, with horn of Ammon; K below, dotted border / BAΣIΛEΩΣ / ΛYΣIMAXOY, Athena seated left, Nike standing left in outstretched right hand, resting left arm on grounded shield decorated with gorgoneion head boss, transverse spear in background; crescent left in outer left field, archaic xoanon (cult image) facing in inner left field, ΞΩ monogram in exergue. Thompson 220. Müller 294 (uncertain Thrace). Deeply toned with flashy high points struck from Fine Style dies.
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.
https://coins.ha.com/itm/ancients/greek/ancients-thracian-kingdom-lysimachus-305-281-bc-ar-tetradrachm-29mm-1632-gm-12h-ngc-xf-4-5-3-5-fine-styl/a/3107-31052.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-3107-05032023
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THRACIAN KINGDOM. Lysimachus (305-281 BC). AR tetradrachm (29mm, 16.32 gm, 12h). NGC XF 4/5 - 3/5, Fine Style. Pergamum, ca. 287/6-282 BC. Diademed head of deified Alexander III right, with horn of Ammon; K below, dotted border / BAΣIΛEΩΣ / ΛYΣIMAXOY, Athena seated left, Nike standing left in outstretched right hand, resting left arm on grounded shield decorated with gorgoneion head boss, transverse spear in background; crescent left in outer left field, archaic xoanon (cult image) facing in inner left field, ΞΩ monogram in exergue. Thompson 220. Müller 294 (uncertain Thrace). Deeply toned with flashy high points struck from Fine Style dies.
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.
https://coins.ha.com/itm/ancients/greek/ancients-thracian-kingdom-lysimachus-305-281-bc-ar-tetradrachm-29mm-1632-gm-12h-ngc-xf-4-5-3-5-fine-styl/a/3107-31052.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-3107-05032023
HID02906262019
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