Greek Silver & Bronze Coins - Celtic - Susanian

Lot 4139    SESSION 16 (9.30AM THURSDAY 2ND SEPTEMBER)    Greek Silver & Bronze Coins - Celtic - Susanian

Estimate $2,000
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $1,700

THRACE, Kingdom of, Lysimachos, (323-281 B.C.), silver tetradrachm, (16.96 g), Silandus (in Lydia) Mint, issued first half of the 3rd century B.C., obv. head of Alexander to right, with diadem and horn of Ammon, rev. Athena Nikephoros enthroned to left, supporting Nike, spear over shoulder, **EPK* monograms in inner left, and **S I* in exergue, to right **BASILEWS*, to left **LUSIMACOU*, (cf.S.6814, Thompson -, Nomos Auction 14, 17 May 2017 (lot 86, same dies), M.454, cf.HGC 3, 1750). Bright, struck on a broad flan, extremely fine and very rare.

Ex Ponterio & Associates, Sale 123, November 14, 2002 (lot 554).
The Nomos auction cited above coin not as fine sold for 850 CHF. Another example from the same dies was sold by CNG Auction 41, 19 March 1997 (lot 402). Only a few examples noted in Coin Archives. Of the finest style. No examples in the Meydancikkale Hoard but a similar example in the Armenak Hoard No.919 (p.86).