cn type 12566
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cn type 12566

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Lysimacheia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 277-265 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Turreted and laureate head of Tyche, right.
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Reverse
Legend
ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΕΩΝ
Design
Lion sitting right.
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Symbol
grain of barley (position: above)
Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 23.6 mm / Min: 17 mm
Average Weight
5.48 g (39x)
Axes
2 (2x) 3 (2x) 4 (1x) 5 (2x) 6 (3x) 9 (1x) 10 (1x) 11 (1x) 12 (4x)
Citation

Boutin, Catalogue des monnaies grecques antiques de l'ancienne collection Pozzi: monnaies frappées en Europe, Maastricht 1979 nr. 2337  ❐

Lischine, Collection C. N. Lischine, Monnaies greques. Thrace, Macon 1902, 1902 p. 129, nr. 1138-1139, pl. 19  ❐

Literature

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. 121, nr. 1499 ❐

Stolba and Peter, Bronze coinage of Lysimacheia (forthcoming) (Group D2: Denomination and dating adopted.)  ❐

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cn type 12566, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/12566 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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