cn type 12559

Mint

Lysimacheia 🔍

Region: Thrace

Date

c. 255-250 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

(position: ) Monogram reverse

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Metrology

Material

bronze 🔍

Diameter

Max: 21 mm / Min: 15.1 mm

Average Weight

3.88 g (603x)

Axes

1 (45x) 2 (3x) 3 (2x) 5 (10x) 6 (27x) 7 (1x) 9 (1x) 10 (17x) 11 (76x) 12 (264x)

Citation

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. 1494 ❐

Arslan et al., Antike Münzen von Thrakien und Moesien aus öffentlichen und privaten Sammlungen der Türkei, Berlin-Boston 2021 nr. 319-356, 854-863 ❐

Springschitz, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. Sammlung Dreer, Klagenfurt im Landesmuseum für Kärnten. 3. Thracien, Macedonien, Päonien, Klagenfurt 1990 nr. 125-126 ❐

Literature

Stolba and Peter, Bronze coinage of Lysimacheia (forthcoming) ❐

Cite this record:

cn type 12559, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/12559 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]