★ Attractive Portrait ★
Greek
KINGS OF THRACE. Lysimachos (305-281 BC). Byzantion, circa 100-96 BC
AR Tetradrachm (33.3mm 16.74g),
Diademed head of Alexander the Great to right with horn of Ammon over his ear. / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ - ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟΥ Athena seated left, holding Nike, crowning the king's name, in her right hand and leaning with her left arm on shield decorated with gorgoneion; in field to left, monogram of ΔΥΡ; on throne, BY; in exergue, ornamented trident to left.
Callataÿ Group 2B, p. 123. CNG E-Auction 335 (2014), 103. Müller -, cf. 159 (differing monogram).