cn type 12124

Mint

Lysimacheia 🔍

Region: Thrace

Date

c. 255-250 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of Heracles, right, wearing lion skin.
go to the NLP result of this description

Reverse

Legend

ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΕΩΝ

Design

Artemis advancing right, holding torch in both hands.
go to the NLP result of this description

Metrology

Material

bronze 🔍

Diameter

Max: 28 mm / Min: 23 mm

Average Weight

9.80 g (91x)

Axes

1 (7x) 3 (1x) 10 (1x) 11 (4x) 12 (39x)

Public Commentary

There are many countermarks and overstrikes on coins in this type.

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. 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 [1] Münzsammlung der Universität Tübingen H. 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 ❐

Literature

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

Cite this record:

cn type 12124, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/12124 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]