Hellenistic Bronze/Copper Alloy Unit of Uncertain, possibly Sardis
- Date
- 306 BC - ca. 280 BC?, Hellenistic
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- 1981.C81.0062
- Material
- Bronze/Copper Alloy
- Object Type
- Coin
- Coin Denomination
- Unit
- Coin Mint
- Uncertain, possibly Sardis
- Issuers
- Lysimachus
- Officina
- Has Mint Mark
- no
- Has Control Mark
- no
- Has Monogram
- no
- Has Countermark
- no
- Hoard
- Monograph 13 Catalog No.
- 8
- Site
- Sardis
- Description
- This coin type: Obverse: Head of Athena in crested helmet r.; Reverse: Lion leaping r., spearhead below, ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ-ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟΥ, illegible mg.
- Condition
- Corroded
- Dimensions
- Weight: 5.43g; Diameter: 21mm.
- Comments
- Note that Mørkholm (1991, p. 82) thought that the chronology and the mints of this denomination and the following “have not yet been worked out.” For suggestion of mint, see Evans, forthcoming.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- SNG Cop. 1149–1157; Mørkholm 1991: 183; M7 GR 2
- Author
- JDE