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Obverse. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Reverse. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Hellenistic Bronze/Copper Alloy Coin of Magnesia ad Maeandrum
- Date
- 350 BC - 190 BC, poss. 350 BC - 320 BC, Hellenistic
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- 1977.1447
- Material
- Bronze/Copper Alloy
- Object Type
- Coin
- Coin Denomination
- Coin Mint
- Magnesia ad Maeandrum
- Issuers
- Lycomedes Arist[
- Officina
- Has Mint Mark
- no
- Has Control Mark
- no
- Has Monogram
- no
- Has Countermark
- no
- Hoard
- Monograph 13 Catalog No.
- 43
- Site
- Sardis
- Description
- This coin type: Obverse: Horseman r. with couched spear; Reverse: Humped bull butting l. ΜΑΓΝ-ΛΥΚΟΜΗΔΗΣ-ΑΡΙΣΤ.
- Condition
- Good
- Dimensions
- Weight: 2.16g; Diameter: 16mm.
- Comments
- Note that the magistrate’s name ΛΥΚΟΜΗΔ is found on a tetradrachm, which Konuk, in SNG Turk 1: 409, dated to 350–320 BC.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- BMC Ionia, p. 161, no. 27
- Author
- JDE