Lysimacheia, bronze (CN type 12559)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
ca. 255-250 v. Chr.
Issuing entity
ThraceCoin type in bronze struck at Lysimacheia in Thrace dated ca. 255-250 v. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 12559. Obverse: Head of Heracles, right, wearing lion skin. Reverse: Nike with wreath and palm branch, left.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Recorded diameter
- 10.3–21 mm (from 1133 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 3.92 g (mean of 1153 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Lysimacheia
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
Design
- Obverse type
- Head of Heracles, right, wearing lion skin.
- Reverse type
- Nike with wreath and palm branch, left.
- Reverse legend
- ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΕΩΝ
Identification
- Period
- Hellenistic Period
- Recorded findspots
- Pinarhisar, Kırklareli Province, Tekirdağ, Kermeyan, Tekirdağ Province
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/12559
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 12559
Documentation checklist
- Denomination
- Research required
- Issue or mint date
- Documented
- Material
- Documented
- Weight
- Documented
- Mint or printer
- Documented
- Mint or printer mark
- Research required
- Catalogue reference
- Documented
- Licensed photograph
- Documented
Catalogue references
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographynr. 903-904
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 120, nr. 1494
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographynr. 319-356, 854-863
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographynr. 125-126
- Corpus Nummorum bibliography
Research required
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution