Can Anyone help identify this coin?

Thank you in advance for anyone that can point me in the right direction <3

 

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It's a 1965 Dime
Minted in the USA

 

I think it's a coin of Lysimachos

 

Exactly! Something along these lines:


(Not my coin, image from acsearch.)

 

That's amazing! Thank you so much. I have had this coin for years and never knew where to begin. I honestly thought the back looked like a frog.

 

Looks similar to mine:

Bodyguard of Alexander III, Lysymachus was famed for slaying a huge Lion on a hunt with Alexander.

Thrace - Lysimachos 305-281 BCE AE14 Lysimacheia mint 2.7g Young Male Helmeted - Forepart Lion SNG Cop 1159 var

 

Interesting coins. Along the same lines, I recently got a Lysimachos Celtic imitation with a lion on the reverse (a full lion). It was then countermarked for use in Odessos.

Exotic as this sounds, these are fairly common for a Greek countermarked issue. I found quite a few auction/sale examples online. The "lion" looks rather like a bear cub, or a dog, or a groundhog.


Eastern Celts Æ 18
Lysimachos (Thrace) Imitation
Countermarked for Odessos
(c. 297-250 B.C.)
Helmeted head of Athena (youth?) right / Blundered legend, lion leaping right, spearhead below.
Countermark: River god (Odessos/Theos Megas) reclining left, Δ below, 9 x 7 mm oval, obv.
(4.04 grams / 18 mm)

Attribution:
Online sources were confusing to me:

Cf. Müller 61-2 for prototype.
cf.SNG.Cop.1149ff.
SNG Copenhagen 1153;
Winterthur 1329