Lysimacheia, bronze (CN type 12569)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
ca. 277-265 v. Chr.
Issuing entity
ThraceCoin type in bronze struck at Lysimacheia in Thrace dated ca. 277-265 v. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 12569. Obverse: Turreted and laureate head of Tyche, right. Reverse: Lion sitting right.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Recorded diameter
- 14–22.2 mm (from 19 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 6.19 g (mean of 21 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
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/12569
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 12569
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. 845, 1407
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographynr. 193
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographynr. 909
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 121, nr. 1499
- Corpus Nummorum bibliography
Research required
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution