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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Okidoki, post: 2873133, member: 70512&quot;]Kingdom of Thrace, Lysimachos, 305 - 281 B.C., Portrait of Alexander the Great21 viewsReference. this is the only example of this type known to Forum; possibly unique</p><p>Unpublished variety; Meydancikkale - (cf. 2691, different controls, same engraver), Müller -, SNG Cop -, Thompson -, Black Sea Hoard -, Armenak -</p><p><br /></p><p>Note. Thrace, Ainos (Enez, Turkey) mint, likely posthumous, c. 282 - 272 B.C</p><p><br /></p><p>Obv. </p><p>diademed head of Alexander the Great wearing the horn of Ammon</p><p>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rev. BASILEWS LUSIMACOU</p><p>Athena enthroned left, holding Nike and resting left elbow on shield decorated with lion’s head, spear resting to her right; ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ to right, ΛΥΣΙΜΑΞΟΥ crowned by Nike to left, monogram in inner left field, monogram in exergue</p><p><br /></p><p>16.503 gr</p><p>28.6 mm</p><p>180o</p><p><br /></p><p>Note.</p><p>Barry Murphy identified the mint for this coin as Ainos, noting, &quot;Not the same dies or the same monograms, but clearly the same engraver as Meydicikkale 2691.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>A subject ally of Athens, Aenus provided peltasts at the Battle of Sphacteria in 425 B.C. and sent forces to the Sicilian Expedition in 415. It was in the possession of Ptolemy Philopator in 222 B.C., of Philip V of Macedon in 200, of Lysimachos in 283, and later of Antiochus the Great, who lost it to the Romans in 185 B.C., whereupon the Romans declared Aenus a free city. It was still a free city in the time of Pliny the Elder.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]687122[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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