| Heritage World Coin Auctions > NYINC Signature Sale 3113 | Auction date: 8 January 2024 |
| Lot number: 30025 Price realized: 17,000 USD (Approx. 15,497 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | Show similar lots on CoinArchives Find similar lots in upcoming auctions on  |
| Lot description: Ancients THRACIAN KINGDOM. Lysimachus (305-281 BC). AV stater (19mm, 8.51 gm, 12h). NGC AU 5/5 - 4/5. Lifetime issue of Alexandria Troas, ca. 297-282 BC. Diademed head of deified Alexander III right, with horn of Ammon / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ / ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟΥ, Athena seated left, Nike standing left in outstretched right hand, resting left arm on grounded shield decorated with lion head boss, transverse spear beyond; ram head left in inner left field, M on throne. Müller -, cf. 128 var. (Samothrace, tetradrachm, same marks with additional monogram). Thompson -, cf. 151 (tetradrachm, star instead of M on throne). Perfectly centered and solidly struck from artistic, fresh dies on gleaming surfaces. Extremely rare - the only example in sales archives. From the Wetmore Collection of Gold and Electrum. Ex Triton III (30 November 1999), lot 414; Triton I (2 December 1997), lot 459; Münzen und Medaillen, Auktion 64 (30 January 1984), lot 70; Hermitage Museum Collection (Felix Schlessinger, Auktion 13, 1935), lot 535. Alexander the Great's meteoric 13-year career of conquest left the classical world profoundly transformed by the time of his premature death in 323 BC. In the immediate aftermath, Alexander's generals carved up his immense new empire into spheres of influence, although maintaining the fiction of a unified leadership. Territorial disputes soon led to civil wars, with the rival warlords contending for supreme power. Chief among these was Lysimachus, who at various times controlled Thrace, Macedon, and much of Asia Minor. For the obverse of his coinage, Lysimachus claimed the mantle of Alexander by choosing the image of the conqueror himself, now shown as a god wearing the ram's horn of the Greco-Egyptian deity Ammon. The image is one of the earliest true portraits to appear on a coin, and one of the finest. The reverse, depicting Athena enthroned, likewise proved extremely influential throughout history, forming the archetype for the figure of Britannia on modern English coins. https://coins.ha.com/itm/ancients/greek/ancients-thracian-kingdom-lysimachus-305-281-bc-av-stater-19mm-851-gm-12h-ngc-au-5-5-4-5/a/3113-30025.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-3113-01082024 HID02906262019 © 2023 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved Estimate: 6000-8000 USD |  |
