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cn coin 53141

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CN Type 12124 🔍
Mint
Lysimacheia 🔍
Region: Thrace
Date
c. 255-250 BC
Hellenistic Period  🔍
Obverse
Design
Head of Heracles, right, wearing lion skin.
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Countermark
Head of lion facing
Reverse
Legend
ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΕΩΝ
Design
Artemis advancing right, holding torch in both hands.
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Countermark
dolphin
Metrology
Material
bronze  🔍
Diameter
25 mm
Weight
8.94 g
Axis
12
Owner
Zürich, Landesmuseum, Zürich, ch  
Owner Inventory No.: ZB-1890.4
Literature
Schwabacher, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : the Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Copenhagen 1942 nr. 903-904  
Hoover, Handbook of coins of Macedon and its neighbors. Part II: Thrace, Skythia, and Taurike: sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, Pa. London 2017 p. 120, nr. 1495  
Boutin, Catalogue des monnaies grecques antiques de l'ancienne collection Pozzi: monnaies frappées en Europe, Maastricht 1979 nr. 2343  
Arslan et al., Antike Münzen von Thrakien und Moesien aus öffentlichen und privaten Sammlungen der Türkei, Berlin-Boston 2021 nr. 512-516, 1190-1191  
Mannsperger and Balluff, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : Deutschland [1] Münzsammlung der Universität Tübingen H. 2 Taurische Chersones - Korkyra: Nr. 731 - 1542, 1982 nr. 924  
Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 195, nr. 2  
Stolba and Peter, Bronze coinage of Lysimacheia (forthcoming) (Group I1. Denomination assignment and dating adopted.)   
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cn coin 53141, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_53141 [Last downloaded: 2025/05/21]
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