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Macedonian Kingdom. Perseus. Silver Tetradrachm (15.27 g), 179-168 BC. Pella or Amphipolis, ca. 173-

171 BC. Ay…, magistrate. Diademed head of Perseus right. Rev.

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, eagle with wings

displayed standing right on thunderbolt; in right field, magistrate’s monogram: AY; above, MA monogram;

between legs,

; all within oak wreath; in exergue, plow. (Mamroth 18b; cf. SNG Alpha Bank 1132

(monogram between legs); cf. SNG Ashmolean 3276 (same); SNG Munich 1198). Light iridescent tone.

Choice very fine.

$ 2,000

ex Roma XI (7 April 2016), lot 256

ex The New York Sale XXXII, Baldwin / Markov / M&M, (8 January 2014), lot 138

ex CNG 76 (12 September 2007), lot 317.

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Thrace, Ainos. Silver Tetrobol (2.53 g), ca. 431-429 BC. Head of Hermes right, wearing petasos. Rev. AIN,

goat standing right; in right field, labrys. (cf. May, Ainos 115-22 (A74/P-; rev. die not recorded); AMNG II

292; SNG Lockett 1159; McClean 3829-30 (same obv. die)). Toned. Very fine.

$ 350

ex Hess-Divo 317 (27 October 2010), lot 92.

Amazing Expressive Lysimachos Silver Tetradrachm

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Thracian Kingdom. Lysimachos. Silver Tetradrachm (16.43 g). Byzantion, under Mithradates VI of

Pontos, 120-63 BC. Diademed head of deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon. Rev.

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LUSIMACOU

, Athena seated left, holding Nike and resting elbow on shield at side, spear leaning against

her far shoulder; in inner left field, monogram; on throne, BY; in exergue, trident. (cf. De Callataÿ grp. 3, p.

124; SNG Copenhagen 1139). Boldly struck and perfectly centered on a wonderful broad flan. Unusually

expressive dies. Light toning. Extremely fine.

$ 3,000

ex Goldberg 36 (30 May 2006), lot 3520

When Alexander the Great’s successor, Lysimachos, introduced his gold and silver coinage featuring the deified head of Alexander

and Athena Nikephoros in 297/6 BC he had struck upon a typology of enduring popularity. It became extremely popular among

the Thracian and Celtic peoples who supplied mercenary troops to many of the Hellenistic kingdoms. In fact the types became

so well-recognized by these mercenaries that they came to demand them from their paymasters long after Lysimachos was dead.

This particular posthumous-Lysimachos tetradrachm was struck by the important city of Byzantion, probably in support of the

expansion of the Pontic empire of Mithradates VI Eupator (ca. 116-63 BC) in the Black Sea and perhaps even during his first

confrontation with the Romans in the First Mithradatic War (89-85 BC).

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