cn type 10655
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cn type 10655

Coinage
 

Ruler: Lysimachos (Hellenistic King)  

Mint
Sestos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

305 BC

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 🔍  
Diameter
17 mm (1x)
Average Weight
4.29 g (1x)
Axes
8 (1x)
Citation

Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 nr. L7  ❐

Thompson, The mints of Lysimachus, 1968 p. 170, nr. 22  (Dated 299/298-297/296 BC.)  ❐

Literature

Web Reference: http://numismatics.org/pella/id/price.L7 ❐

Cite this record:

cn type 10655, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/10655 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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