Thyessos, Lydia. AE16, 2.64 g, 400-300 BC.

Helmeted head of Athena left.
Q-Y, torch within wreath.

Weber 5443 ("Thymbra, Troas"); Lindgren I 383A (ditto)


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

With permission of cngcoins.com, auction 239, Lot 134, Aug 2010.

*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.