Ancient Gold Coins
Lot 4804 Session 18 (2.30pm Friday 25 November) Ancient Gold Coins
Estimate $3,000
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $2,700
THRACE, Kingdom of, Lysimachos, (323-281 B.C.), gold stater, (8.51 g), Byzantium mint, posthumous issue c.205-195 B.C., obv. diademed head of Alexander the Great to right, wearing horn of Ammon, rev. Athena enthroned to left, holding Nike and resting left arm on shield, transverse spear resting against right side to right, to right **BASILEWS*, to left **LUSIMACOU*, lion's head to left in outer left field, trident below in exergue, (cf.S.6813, cf.Seyrig, `Monnaies de Byzance et de Calcedoine' [Essays to S.Robinson], No.7-10 [Plate 23]). Extremely fine but virtually as struck, once in jewellery but extremely rare and apparently unpublished for these marks.
In a slab by NGC as Ch AU Strike 5/5, Surface 3/5 fine style ex jewellery.
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