cn coin 51501

Connected to Type

CN Type 20740 🔍

Mint

Byzantion 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐

Date

c. 150-120 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

stater 🔍 ❐

Material

gold  🔍 ❐

Weight

8.44 g

Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,
Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.
Provenience: Dr. Busso Peus Nachfolger eA 366 (29.10.2000) lot 104

Literature

Müller, Die Münzen des Thracischen Königs Lysimachus, Kopenhagen 1858 nr. 154 ❐

Marinescu, Making and Spending Money Along the Bosporus: the Lysimachi Coinages Minted by Byzantium and Chalcedon and their Socio-Cultural Context, 1996 p. 165f., nr. 481-486 ❐

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cn coin 51501, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_51501 [Last downloaded: 2023/03/28]

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