cn coin 30742

Connected to Type

CN Type 20739 🔍

Mint

Byzantion 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐

Date

c. 195-190 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 with two dolphins (position: in exergue)

Persons

Sitter

Alexander der Große 🔍 ❐

stated authority

Lysimachos 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

stater 🔍 ❐

Material

gold  🔍 ❐

Diameter

19 mm

Weight

8.46 g

Axis

12

Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de  ❐
Owner Inventory No.: 18267407
Provenience: 1822 Knobelsdorff - Vorbesitzer Knobelsdorff

Literature

Müller, Die Münzen des Thracischen Königs Lysimachus, Kopenhagen 1858 nr. 179  ❐

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 306, nr. 49  ❐

Marinescu, Making and Spending Money Along the Bosporus: the Lysimachi Coinages Minted by Byzantium and Chalcedon and their Socio-Cultural Context, 1996 p. 109, nr. 227  ❐

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cn coin 30742, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_30742 [Last downloaded: 2025/04/26]

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