Featured New arrival - Lysimachos Tetradrachm

Nice coins !

Here is mine, a new acquisition as well. From the Lampsakos mint ref. Thompson 49.

 

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Reviving this thread to add a Lysimachos drachm from Colophon - and to gawk at the tetradrachms from OP on, with lion in left field reinforcing the story of killing the lion with his bare hands.
Kings of Thrace, Lysimachos, 305-281 BC, drachm, in the type of Alexander III of Macedon, Kolophon (on western edge of Asia Minor), struck c. 299/8-297/6 BC
Obv: Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress
Rev: BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΛYΣIMAXOY, Zeus seated left on throne, holding eagle in his right hand and scepter in his left; to left, head of lion above crescent; below throne, pentagram
Ref: Price L28