Lysimachus Tetradrachm

Or it's mane perhaps?

 

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Some stunning examples... but I'm still seeing Gorgons (though that last wonderful example sure has a nice mane) .
Contemporary examples of Gorgons in other forms of art:


Bronze head of Medusa, circa 1st Century AD, National Roman Museum – Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome


Gorgon Medusa 200 AD with wings at the top of her head (Romano-Germanic Museum in Cologne)

 

It's gorgeous, @kazuma78. Loaded with eye appeal. Great style! When faced with a choice I'll take great style over higher grade any day .

 

@kazuma78 Wow what a beautiful coin. A lot larger than I would have expected. Congrats.

 

You just woke up a post from near the beginning of the pandemic
Here's a bronze Lysimachos :

Lysimachos

Kings of Thrace. Uncertain mint. 305-281 BC. AE (19mm, 3.75g). Helmeted head of Athena right / Lion leaping right, spearhead below. Müller 61; HGC 3, 1758.
Former: Kairos

 

Thanks! It's quite a large flan and high relief in person. Looking back at the other coins I bid on around the time I bought this coin, I sure wish I would have bought more or went more strongly after some of the coins!

 

Kingdom of Thrace. Lysimachos, 323-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 16.75g, 10h). Ainos mint, struck circa 283-281 BC. Obv: Diademed head of Alexander the Great to right with horn of Ammon over his ear. Rev: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ/ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟΥ; Athena seated left, holding Nike, crowning the king's name, in her right hand and leaning with her left arm on shield; behind, transverse spear; in inner left field, thymiaterion above cult statue of Hermes Perpheraios set on throne. Ref: Muller 118. Good Very Fine/Very Fine, toned. Ex Pegasi 24 (5 Apr 2011), Lot 79.

 

That's a perfect tetradrachm @kazuma78

This is mine , less than perfect

While both SNG Berry and Meydancikkale place this issue at Byzantion, Marinescu (pp. 25-6) doubts this attribution, noting a strong similarity in portrait style to certain Lampsakos issues. Similarly, Newell also saw a possibility of this issue being the sole lifetime issue at Byzantion, but was not convinced enough to place it there. However, there is consensus that this is a lifetime issue of Lysimachos:

28 x 30 mm, 16.534 g
Byzantion, 306/305 - 281 BC;
http://numismatics.org/collection/1944.100.81459 gives the date as 260 -190 BC, but than it could not be a lifetime issue of Lysimachos

Ref.: Thompson -; Meydancikkale 2705; SNG Berry 407; Müller 316

Ob.: Head of the deified Alexander facing r., wearing horn of Ammon. Anepigraphic.
Rev.: BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΛYΣIMAXOY Athena Nikephoros seated l., left arm resting on shield decorated with a lion's head, transverse spear in background; monogram ATP to inner left and below Athena's throne "ΘΕ", an abbreviation of ΑΘΗΝΑΙΩΝ, "of the Athenians".

A lion was his personal device. A story popular in Roman times told that Alexander punished Lysimachus for trying to help Callisthenes, by locking him in a cage with a lion. Callisthenes, a historian who criticized Alexander 's adoption of Persian customs (particularly that he be regarded as a god), had been accused of treason and imprisoned. Lysimachus killed the lion by tearing out its tongue with his bare hands (Justin 15.3).

 

@kazuma78 beautiful coin

 

missed this thread , great Lysimachos coins,adding another Tet: