KINGS OF THRACE. Lysimachos, 305-281 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 33 mm, 16.16 g, 12 h), Byzantion, circa 90-81 BC. Diademed head of Alexander the Great to right with horn of Ammon over his ear. Rev. 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; to inner left, monogram; on throne, BY; in exergue, ornamented trident to left. Marinescu -. Müller 208. M. Price: Mithradates VI Eupator, Dionysus, and the Coinages of the Black Sea, in: NC 8 (1968), p. 9 & pl. IV, 26. Harshly cleaned and with a small flan crack, otherwise, extremely fine.

From a European collection, formed before 2005.