cn coin 12382

Mint
Lysimacheia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 260-255 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Athena, right, wearing Corinthian helmet.
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Reverse
Legend
ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΕΩΝ
Design
Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: below) Monogram reverse (position: top right)
Metrology
Material
Weight
3.17 g
Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr

Owner Inventory No.: Fonds général 1677

Public Commentary

Cannot be typed due to the state of preservation, since it is unclear whether there is another monogram on the reverse in front of the lion.

Literature

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. 122, nr. 1501

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. 122, nr. 1501

Arslan et al., Antike Münzen von Thrakien und Moesien aus öffentlichen und privaten Sammlungen der Türkei, Berlin-Boston 2021 nr. 316-318, 852, 1133-1135

Schwabacher, Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. Copenhagen. The Royal Collection of Coins and Medals. Danish National Museum. Part 7: Thrace 2: Odessus - Sestos. Islands. Kings and Dynasts 7, Copenhagen 1943 nr. 908

Lischine, Collection C. N. Lischine, Monnaies greques. Thrace, Macon 1902, 1902 nr. 1105-1107

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 196, nr. 13

Stolba and Peter, Bronze coinage of Lysimacheia (forthcoming) (Group G3: Denomination and dating adopted.) 

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cn coin 12382, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_12382 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/22]

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