cn coin 30751

Connected to Type

CN Type 20169 🔍

Mint

Byzantion 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐

Date

c. 155-150 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

tetradrachm 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

37 mm

Weight

14.08 g

Axis

12

Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de  ❐
Owner Inventory No.: 18267423
Provenience: 1928/367 - Veru00e4uu00dferer (an Vorbesitzer) Alexandros III. von Makedonien

Findspot

Babylon, iq [iq] ❐

Hoard

IGCH 1774  ❐

Public Commentary

Obv. and rev. with oxide layers. Piece broken.

Citation

Marinescu, Making and Spending Money Along the Bosporus: the Lysimachi Coinages Minted by Byzantium and Chalcedon and their Socio-Cultural Context, 1996 p. 136, nr. 355.1  (Issue 122, 175-150 BC. On the Babylon hoard ibid. p. 291 n. 39 ( 155-150 BC).)  ❐

Literature

Müller, Die Münzen des Thracischen Königs Lysimachus, Kopenhagen 1858 nr. 162  ❐

Marinescu, Making and Spending Money Along the Bosporus: the Lysimachi Coinages Minted by Byzantium and Chalcedon and their Socio-Cultural Context, 1996 p. 136-137, nr. 352-357, pl. 30 (Issue 122, 175-150 BC. On the Babylon hoard ibid. p. 291 n. 39 ( 155-150 BC).)   ❐

Regling, Hellenistischer Münzschatz aus Babylon 38, 1928 p. 104, nr. 6  ❐

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