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A bronze coin of Thyateira in Lydia showing Athena and Tyche Coin Type: A semi-autonomous bronze coin of Thyateira in Lydia.
Mint and Date: Thyateira, 3rd century CE.
Size and Weight: 18mm x 20mm, 3.14g
Obverse: Bust of Athena right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet and bilobed aegis with a central gorgoneion and three snakes rising from the far edge. Spear held over left shoulder.
Reverse: ΘYATЄIP-HNΩN
Tyche, wearing a kalathos, standing left, right hand resting on a rudder, cornucopia in left arm behind.
Provenance: numismatiklanz (eBay), November 2009
Ref: BMC Lydia 34; SNG Copenhagen 582; SNG von Aulock 3206 (taken from a CNG specimen on line).
BW Ref: 002 044 150
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Note: The same Athena can be seen on these two coins: Trajan, Herakleia Pontika; semi-autonomous, Elaea.


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