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cn coin 7222

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Lysimacheia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 260-255 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Heracles, right, wearing lion skin.
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Reverse
Legend
ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΕΩΝ
Design
Nike with wreath and palm branch, left.
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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: on the left) Monogram reverse (position: at the bottom left)
Symbol
corn-ear (position: on the left)
Metrology
Material
Diameter
24 mm
Weight
9.96 g
Axis
12
Owner

Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Münzkabinett, Dresden, de

Owner Inventory No.: AAC923 (1917/389)

Literature

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 195, nr. 4

Schwabacher, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : the Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Copenhagen 1942 nr. 902

Arslan et al., Antike Münzen von Thrakien und Moesien aus öffentlichen und privaten Sammlungen der Türkei, Berlin-Boston 2021 nr. 313

Stolba and Peter, Bronze coinage of Lysimacheia (forthcoming) (Group G1: Denomination and dating adopted.) 

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cn coin 7222, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_7222 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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