Thyessos, Lydia. AE17. ca 4th Century BC. 6.34 g.

Laureate head of Zeus Ammon left with ram's horn.
Q-Y between two rays of an eight-rayed star. 

BMC 1-3 (Thymbra); SNG von Aulock 1584 (ditto). 


Reattibuted from Thymbra Troas to Thyessos Lydia by Dinçer Savas Lenger in 2017.*

With permission of Roma Numismatics E-Sale 38, Lot 161, July 2017.

*D.S.LENGER,”Thyessos in Lydia, not Thymbra in the Troad”, in Ex nummis lux. Studies in Ancient Numismatics in Honour of Dimitar Draganov, (Ed. D.Boteva), Sofia, 2017, pp.221-227.