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Lysimacheia, bronze coin — Lion sitting right (CN type 12558)

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Record status

Individual type · research required

Period

c. 260–255 BC

Issuing entity

Thrace

Coin in bronze struck at Lysimacheia in Thrace, dated c. 260–255 BC. Corpus Nummorum, the online type corpus of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, records it as CN type 12558 (period: Hellenistic Period; issuing authority type: city).

Obverse: Turreted and laureate head of Tyche, right. Reverse: Lion sitting right. Legend: ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΕΩΝ. Measured specimens give a mean weight of 4.92 g (mean of 54 recorded specimens) and a diameter of 17.8–20 mm (from 52 recorded specimens). Recorded findspots: Tekirdağ. Published references cited by the corpus: Boutin, Catalogue des monnaies grecques antiques de l'ancienne collection Pozzi: monnaies frappées en Europe, Maastricht 1979, nr. 2335; Arslan et al., Antike Münzen von Thrakien und Moesien aus öffentlichen und privaten Sammlungen der Türkei, Berlin-Boston 2021, nr. 314-315, 851; 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).

Evidence at a glance

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Historical context

Lysimachia, also known as Lysimacheia, was a major Hellenistic Greek town situated on the north-western extremity of the Thracian Chersonese, modern Gallipoli peninsula, where the peninsula joins the mainland in European Turkey. The city was located near the bay of Melas and the modern village of Bolayır. During the Hellenistic Period, it operated as a civic authority in Thrace, issuing municipal bronze coinages such as this issue dated to circa 260–255 BC.

Physical characteristics

Material
bronze
Recorded diameter
17.8–20 mm (from 52 recorded specimens)
Recorded mean weight
4.92 g (mean of 54 recorded specimens)

Technical characteristics

Mint
Lysimacheia
Region
Thrace
Authority type
City

Design

Obverse type
Turreted and laureate head of Tyche, right.
Reverse type
Lion sitting right.
Reverse legend
ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΕΩΝ

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. 1 closely related CN type with the same mint, denomination and design is consolidated into this entry and listed under varieties.
Recorded findspots
Tekirdağ
Type corpus record
https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/12558
Type corpus identifier
CN type 12558

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Catalogue references

Varieties

  • CN type 12566

    Same mint, denomination and design (reverse legend ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΕΩΝ); dated c. 277–265 BC. Consolidated into this entry

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