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cn coin 51090

Coinage
 

Ruler: Lysimachos (Hellenistic King)  

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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) bull-head facing (position: Beneath throne)
Persons

Authority: Lysimachos 🔍  

stated authority: Lysimachos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
drachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
3.92 g
Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb ❐

Owner Inventory No.: RPK,p87C.2.Lys

Provenience: Bequeathed by: Richard Payne Knight, 1824

Citation

Knight, Nummi veteres civitatum, regum, gentium, et provinciarum, Londini in Museo, Londinum 1830   ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 51090, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_51090 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

License:

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