• m13-8-0002-10
    Obverse. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
  • m13-8-0002-20
    Reverse. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Hellenistic Bronze/Copper Alloy Unit of Uncertain, possibly Sardis

Monograph 13: Coins from the Excavations at Sardis: Their Archaeological and Economic Contexts (2018) Cat. 8.0002
Date
306 BC - ca. 280 BC?, Hellenistic
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
1978.1455
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
Fair, worn
Dimensions
Weight: 4.51g; Diameter: 20mm.
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

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