cn coin 30744

Connected to Type

CN Type 20182 🔍

Mint

Byzantion 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐

Date

c. 235-225 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.

Monogram

(position: on the left)

Symbol

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

Persons

Sitter

Alexander der Große 🔍 ❐

stated authority

Lysimachos 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

stater 🔍 ❐

Material

gold  🔍 ❐

Diameter

21 mm

Weight

8.45 g

Axis

12

Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de  ❐
Owner Inventory No.: 18267413
Provenience: 1873 Fox - Vorbesitzer Smythe, 6. Viscount Strangford

Citation

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 306, nr. 51 ❐

Literature

Marinescu, Making and Spending Money Along the Bosporus: the Lysimachi Coinages Minted by Byzantium and Chalcedon and their Socio-Cultural Context, 1996 p. 76, nr. 124, pl. 11 ❐

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cn coin 30744, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_30744 [Last downloaded: 2023/02/06]

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