cn coin 48379

Connected to Type

CN Type 20160 🔍

Mint

Byzantion 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐

Date

c. 175-150 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)
lying trident with two dolphins (position: in exergue)

Persons

Sitter

Alexander der Große 🔍 ❐

stated authority

Lysimachos 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

tetradrachm 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Weight

16.81 g

Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,
Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.
Provenience: Gorny&Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung, Auktion 130, 8./9. 3. 2004, Nr. 1104

Literature

Marinescu, Making and Spending Money Along the Bosporus: the Lysimachi Coinages Minted by Byzantium and Chalcedon and their Socio-Cultural Context, 1996 p. 128-129, nr. 310-318, pl. 26-27 ❐

Müller, Die Münzen des Thracischen Königs Lysimachus, Kopenhagen 1858 nr. 195 ❐

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cn coin 48379, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_48379 [Last downloaded: 2023/02/06]

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