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Lysimacheia, bronze coin — Nike with wreath and palm branch (CN type 12559)

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Record status

Individual type · research required

Period

c. 255–250 BC

Issuing entity

Thrace

Coin in bronze struck at Lysimacheia in Thrace, dated c. 255–250 BC. Corpus Nummorum, the online type corpus of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, records it as CN type 12559 (period: Hellenistic Period; issuing authority type: city).

Obverse: Head of Heracles, right, wearing lion skin. Reverse: Nike with wreath and palm branch, left. Legend: ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΕΩΝ. Measured specimens give a mean weight of 3.92 g (mean of 1153 recorded specimens) and a diameter of 10.3–21 mm (from 1133 recorded specimens). Recorded findspots: Pinarhisar, Kırklareli Province, Tekirdağ, Kermeyan, Tekirdağ Province. Published references cited by the corpus: 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. 1494; Arslan et al., Antike Münzen von Thrakien und Moesien aus öffentlichen und privaten Sammlungen der Türkei, Berlin-Boston 2021, nr. 319-356, 854-863; Springschitz, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. Sammlung Dreer, Klagenfurt im Landesmuseum für Kärnten. 3. Thracien, Macedonien, Päonien, Klagenfurt 1990, nr. 125-126; Stolba and Peter, Bronze coinage of Lysimacheia (forthcoming).

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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
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. 2 closely related CN types with the same mint, denomination and design are consolidated into this entry and listed under varieties.
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

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Catalogue references

Varieties

  • CN type 12567

    Same mint, denomination and design (reverse legend ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΕΩΝ); dated c. 260–255 BC. Consolidated into this entry

  • CN type 13113

    Same mint, denomination and design (reverse legend ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΕΩΝ); dated c. 260–255 BC. Consolidated into this entry

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