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Electronic Auction 324  9 April 2014
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Lot 91

Estimate: 300 USD
Price realized: 450 USD
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MYSIA, Kyzikos. Mid 3rd century BC. AR Tetradrachm (33mm, 16.99 g, 12h). In the name and types of Lysimachos of Thrace. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon / Athena Nikephoros seated left, left arm resting on shield, transverse spear in background; monogram to inner left; fish hook(?) in exergue. Unpublished, but obverse dies by the same engraver are known for Lysimachi from Kyzikos: cf. SNG France 2523–4 and G.K. Jenkins, A Hellenistic Hoard from Mesopotamia," MN 13 (1967), 39; also see CNG eAuction 322, lot 213 for a very similar coin with the same symbol in the exergue, but a different monogram. Good VF, light marks and scratches."

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