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cn coin 39218

Mint
Lysimacheia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

299/298-297/296 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of bearded Heracles, right, wearing lion skin.
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Reverse
Legend
ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟΥ
Design
Zeus (Aëtophoros) enthroned left, holding eagle and sceptre.
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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: on the left)
Symbol
forepart of lion, left (position: on the left)
Persons

stated authority: Alexander der Große 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
drachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
3.86 g
Axis
6
Owner

American Numismatic Society, New York, us ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 1944.100.77416

Provenience: Bequest of E.T. Newell, ETN; Basel Munzhandlung, July 1939

Literature

Thompson, The mints of Lysimachus, 1968 p. 168, nr. 6 ❐

Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 nr. L1 ❐

Thompson, The mints of Lysimachus, 1968 p. 168, nr. 6 ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 39218, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_39218 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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