Emisiunile monetare de aur de tip Lysimach de la Odessos
The Lysimachus Type Gold Mintage from Odessos

Summary/Abstract: Despite the abscence of the epigraphically or literary evidence concerning the involvement of Odessos in the events from the middle of the IIIrd century BC, by far the greatest number of posthumous Lysimachus type staters from the Western Black Sea Greek cities, before the appearance of the trident series in Byzantion, belongs to this city. There are 12 issues struck with nine obverse and 12 reverse dies, having or not spear on goddess shoulder, as happens also in Mesambria, Tomis, Byzantion. All these gold issues, involving four mint masters (KOI, KOIP, ΚΛΕΑΝ and probably ) seem to be struck in just few years, before the beginning of the third Syrian war until the battle of Andros.

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