250 BCE - 220 BCE | ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΕΩΝ
Overstriking coin
SO 332 - Lysimachia over uncertain mint.png
Overstruck variety
Antiochus II Sardis tripod.jpg
[1]
|
|
Sale(s)Sale(s) ᵖ:
|
Ebay seller variana__museum, 19 July 2018
|
|
|
|
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:
|
Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress
|
ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:
|
ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΕΩΝ (Greek) Nike left holding wreath and palm
|
Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.:
|
Lysimachia
|
Ancient regionAncient region.
|
Thrace
|
Modern countryModern country: Turkey
|
AuthorityIdentifies the issuing power. The authority can be "pretended" when the name or the portrait of X is on the coin but he/she was not the issuing power. It can also be "uncertain" when there is no mention of X on the coin but he/she was the issuing power according to the historical sources:
|
|
Chronology
| FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 250 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 220 BCE
|
Hellenistic 323-30 BC  periodTime period of the numismatic object.
|
Physical description
| MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: Bronze
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
References
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:
|
Head of Apollo right, wearing laurel wreath
|
ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:
|
BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ ANTIOXOY (Greek) Tripod.
|
Mint and issuing power
Chronology
| FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 261 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 246 BCE
|
Hellenistic 323-30 BC periodTime period of the numismatic object.
|
Physical description
References
References
- ^ Hoover, Oliver D. (2017), Handbook of Coins of Macedon and Its Neighbors. 3. Part 2: Thrace, Skythia, and Taurike, Sixth to First Centuries BC, Lancaster-London, xix, 232 p.
- ^ Hoover, Oliver D. (2009), Handbook of ancient Syrian coins : royal and civic issues, fourth to first centuries BC, The Handbook of Greek Coinage 9, Lancaster, lxix, 332 p.
- ^ Houghton, Arthur - Lorber, Catharine (2002), Seleucid coins : a comprehensive catalogue. Part 1, Seleucus I through Antiochus III, New York - Lancaster - London, 2 v. (xxxviii, 488 p. + 300 p.), 101 pl.
