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cn coin 39235

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CN Type 10654 🔍

Coinage
 

Ruler: Lysimachos (Hellenistic King)  

Mint
Sestos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

305-305 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) cornucopia (position: Beneath throne)
Persons

Authority: Lysimachos 🔍  

stated authority: Lysimachos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
drachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
17.5 mm
Weight
4.17 g
Axis
3
Owner

American Numismatic Society, New York, us ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 1944.100.45282

Provenience: Bequest of E.T. Newell, ETN; W. Raymond, 22 Oct. 1929

Hoard

IGCH 1423 ❐

Literature

Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 nr. L6 ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 39235, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_39235 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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