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cn coin 54709

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CN Type 12124 🔍

Mint
Lysimacheia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 255-250 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Heracles, right, wearing lion skin.
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Countermark
Head of lion facing
Reverse
Legend
ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΕΩΝ
Design
Artemis advancing right, holding torch in both hands.
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Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
23.6 mm
Weight
10.62 g
Axis
1
Owner

American Numismatic Society, New York, us ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 1944.100.16595

Provenience: Newell

Literature

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. 1495 ❐

Boutin, Catalogue des monnaies grecques antiques de l'ancienne collection Pozzi: monnaies frappées en Europe, Maastricht 1979 nr. 2343 ❐

Arslan et al., Antike Münzen von Thrakien und Moesien aus öffentlichen und privaten Sammlungen der Türkei, Berlin-Boston 2021 nr. 512-516, 1190-1191 ❐

Mannsperger and Balluff, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. Deutschland. Münzsammlung der Universität Tübingen. 2. Taurische Chersones - Korkyra: Nr. 731 - 1542, 1982 nr. 924 ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 195, nr. 2 ❐

Stolba and Peter, Bronze coinage of Lysimacheia (forthcoming) (Group I1. Denomination assignment and dating adopted.)  ❐

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