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Lysimacheia, bronze coin — Legend within laurel wreath (CN type 12106)

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Record status

Individual type · research required

Period

c. 277–265 BC

Issuing entity

Thrace

Coin in bronze struck at Lysimacheia in Thrace, dated c. 277–265 BC. Corpus Nummorum, the online type corpus of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, records it as CN type 12106 (period: Hellenistic Period; issuing authority type: city).

Obverse: Head of Hermes, right, wearing petasus. Reverse: Legend within laurel wreath. Legend: ΛΥΣΙ. Measured specimens give a mean weight of 1.07 g (mean of 50 recorded specimens) and a diameter of 10–12 mm (from 48 recorded specimens). Published references cited by the corpus: 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. 122, nr. 1505; Lischine, Collection C. N. Lischine, Monnaies greques. Thrace, Macon 1902, 1902, p. 127, nr. 1117-1119, pl. 19; Stolba and Peter, Bronze coinage of Lysimacheia (forthcoming).

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Physical characteristics

Material
bronze
Recorded diameter
10–12 mm (from 48 recorded specimens)
Recorded mean weight
1.07 g (mean of 50 recorded specimens)

Technical characteristics

Mint
Lysimacheia
Region
Thrace
Authority type
City

Design

Obverse type
Head of Hermes, right, wearing petasus.
Reverse type
Legend within laurel wreath.
Reverse legend
ΛΥΣΙ

Identification

Period
Hellenistic Period
How to identify
Check the mint name or ethnic, the reverse type and the legend together, then compare weight and module; types from the same mint often differ only in legend arrangement, magistrate names or control marks.
Type corpus record
https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/12106
Type corpus identifier
CN type 12106

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