Silver Drachm - Ancient Greece: Kings of Thrace - Lysimachos, c. 305-281 BC
Obv: Head of Deified Alexander the Great, right, with Horn of Ammon
Rev: Athena with Nike, seated left, arm on shield
Mint: Ephesos. 18.5mm, 4.19gm
Provenance: From the Nicholas Sicurella Collection.
Thompson 172 var., Ratto (4 April 1927), lot 975.
This series by Lysimachos is believed to represent the most accurate portrait of Alexander.
Lysimachus was a Macedonian officer and diadochus (i.e. ''successor'') of Alexander the Great, who became a basileus (''King'') in 306 BC, ruling Thrace, Asia Minor and Macedon.
