cn coin 53145

Connected to Type

CN Type 12566 🔍

Mint

Lysimacheia 🔍

Region: Thrace

Date

c. 277-265 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Turreted and laureate head of Tyche, right.
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Reverse

Legend

ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΕΩΝ

Design

Lion sitting right.
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Symbol

grain of barley (position: above)

Metrology

Material

bronze 🔍

Diameter

18.5 mm

Weight

4.70 g

Axis

Owner

Historisches Museum Basel, Basel, ch ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 1982.455.61

Provenience: Frau Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Alföldi-Rosenbaum, 272 Mercer Street, Princeton, New Jersey, USA; aus dem Nachlass ihres Gatten Prof. Dr. Andreas Alföldi

Literature

Boutin, Catalogue des monnaies grecques antiques de l'ancienne collection Pozzi: monnaies frappées en Europe, Maastricht 1979 nr. 2337 ❐

Lischine, Collection C. N. Lischine, Monnaies greques. Thrace, Macon 1902, 1902 p. 129, nr. 1138-1139, pl. 19 ❐

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. 1499 ❐

Stolba and Peter, Bronze coinage of Lysimacheia (forthcoming) (Group D2: Denomination and dating adopted.) ❐

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cn coin 53145, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_53145 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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