Drachm In the name of Lysimachus/Calchedonians

Features

Issuer	Kalchedon (Bithynia)
Stated authority	Lysimachus (304 BC - 281 BC)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	270 BC - 260 BC
Value	Drachm (1)
Currency	Attic drachm
Composition	Silver
Weight	4.11 g
Diameter	19 mm
Shape	Round (irregular)
Technique	Hammered
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 554785
References	Marinescu# 6-7 Constantin A. Marinescu; 1996. Making and Spending Money Along the Bosporus: The Lysimachi Coinages Minted by Byzantium and Chalcedon and their Socio-Cultural Context. New York City, New York, United States. , SNG BM Black Sea# 132 Martin Jessop Price; 1993. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum (Great Britain) / Volume 9.1. The British Museum. Part 1: The Black Sea. British Museum, London, United Kingdom. , SNG Berry# 910 Margaret Thompson, Robert Ross Holloway, Irwin L. Merker. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: The Burton Y. Berry Collection. American Numismatic Society, New York City, New York, United States (2 volumes). , SNG von Aulock# 489 Gebr. Mann (publisher). Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Sammlung von Aulock. Gebr. Mann, Berlin, Germany (17 volumes).

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Obverse

Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon.

Reverse

Athena Nikephoros seated left, left arm resting on shield, transverse spear in background; monogram to inner left and ear of wheat in the exergue.

Script: Greek

Lettering:
ΚΑΛΧΑ
ΔΟΝΙΩΝ

Mint

Calchedon, Bithynia, modern-day Kadıköy, Turkey

Comments

Unique issue where Lysimachus’ name is replaced with the legend ΚΑΛΧΑΔΟΝΙΩΝ, inscribed vertically on either side of the reverse.

As such this legend proclaims that the coins belong “to the Chalcedonians,” acknowledging that this emission is not a royal issue but a civic one.

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (270 BC - 260 BC)

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