cn coin 11679

Connected to Type

CN Type 21005 🔍

Mint

Byzantion 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐

Date

c. 80-76 BC
Hellenistic Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

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

Legend

ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟΥ

Design

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

(position: on the left)

Symbol

ΒΥ (position: Beneath throne)
lying trident (position: in exergue)

Persons

Sitter

Alexander der Große 🔍 ❐

stated authority

Lysimachos 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

tetradrachm 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

35 mm

Weight

13.38 g

Axis

12

Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr  ❐
Owner Inventory No.: R 1981
Provenience: Henri Seyrig

Literature

de Callataÿ, L'histoire des guerres mithridatiques vue par les monnaies, Louvain-La-Neuve 1997 p. 126, nr. Group 4 (DD19-23/R1-6, 80-76 BC)   ❐

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cn coin 11679, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_11679 [Last downloaded: 2025/06/22]

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