cn coin 3159

Connected to Type

CN Type 12412 🔍

Mint

Byzantion 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐

Date

c. 160-150 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

36 mm

Weight

16.66 g

Axis

12

Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de  ❐
Owner Inventory No.: 18207689
Provenience: Aus dem Fund von Babylon Nr. 7.

Findspot

Babylon, iq [iq] ❐

Hoard

IGCH 1774  ❐

Citation

Regling, Hellenistischer Münzschatz aus Babylon 38, 1928 p. 104, nr. 7, pl. /  ❐

Marinescu, Making and Spending Money Along the Bosporus: the Lysimachi Coinages Minted by Byzantium and Chalcedon and their Socio-Cultural Context, 1996 p. 140, nr. 378.1, pl. 32  (Issue 124, 155-150 BC; Ibid. 292-293. No. 39 on the Babylon hoard (dated c. 155-150 BC).)  ❐

Literature

Marinescu, Making and Spending Money Along the Bosporus: the Lysimachi Coinages Minted by Byzantium and Chalcedon and their Socio-Cultural Context, 1996 p. 140-141, nr. 377-381, pl. 32 (Issue 124, 155-150 BC)   ❐

Müller, Die Münzen des Thracischen Königs Lysimachus, Kopenhagen 1858 nr. 224  ❐

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