cn coin 55677

Connected to Type

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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Metrology

Material

bronze  🔍 ❐

Diameter

23.5 mm

Weight

8.64 g

Axis

12

Owner

Yale University Art Gallery, Coins and Medals, New Haven, us  ❐
Owner Inventory No.: 2004.6.1012
Provenience: P. R. Franke Coll.

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 55677, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_55677 [Last downloaded: 2025/05/23]

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