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cn coin 17784

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CN Type 12559 🔍

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Lysimacheia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 255-250 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Heracles, right, wearing lion skin.
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Reverse
Legend
ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΕΩΝ
Design
Nike with wreath and palm branch, left.
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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: ) Monogram reverse (position: )
Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
19 mm
Weight
4.13 g
Axis
12
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18221887

Provenience: 1875 Prokesch-Osten - Vorbesitzer Prokesch von Osten

Literature

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. The Royal Collection of Coins and Medals. Danish National Museum. Thrace and Macedonia. 2 nr. 914-917 ❐

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. 121, nr. 1500 (Dated 245-225 BC)  ❐

Peter, Die Münzen der thrakischen Dynasten (5. - 3. Jahrhundert v. Chr.): Hintergründe ihrer Prägung, Berlin 1997 p. 244f. (This type of coin is often overstruck on coins with the head of Apollo / tripod of the Seleucid king Antiochus II (r. 261-246 BC) from Sardis and thus further evidence for the influx of Seleucid coins into the Thrace region around 250 BC. Chr.)  ❐

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. 1494 ❐

Arslan et al., Antike Münzen von Thrakien und Moesien aus öffentlichen und privaten Sammlungen der Türkei, Berlin-Boston 2021 nr. 319-356, 854-863 ❐

Springschitz, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. Sammlung Dreer, Klagenfurt im Landesmuseum für Kärnten. 3. Thracien, Macedonien, Päonien, Klagenfurt 1990 nr. 125-126 ❐

Stolba and Peter, Bronze coinage of Lysimacheia (forthcoming) ❐

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cn coin 17784, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_17784 [Last downloaded: 2026/07/16]

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