cn coin 11634

Connected to Type

CN Type 20766 🔍

Mint

Byzantion 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐

Date

c. 220-210 BC
Hellenistic Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

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

Reverse

Legend

ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟΥ

Design

Athena (Nikephoros) seated left, holding Nike and spear; shield behind.

Symbol

ΙΑ (position: on the left)

Persons

Sitter

Alexander der Große 🔍 ❐

stated authority

Lysimachos 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

tetradrachm 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Weight

16.6 g

Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr  ❐
Provenience: Fouilles de Suse; Fouilles de Suse 635

Findspot

Susa, ir [ir] ❐

Public Commentary

Hoard 5, Susa

Literature

Marinescu, Making and Spending Money Along the Bosporus: the Lysimachi Coinages Minted by Byzantium and Chalcedon and their Socio-Cultural Context, 1996 p. 89f. ❐

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cn coin 11634, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_11634 [Last downloaded: 2022/07/05]

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