cn coin 51985

Connected to Type

CN Type 21189 🔍

Ruler  ❐

Ruler: Lysimachos (Hellenistic King) ❐

Mint

Byzantion 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐

Date

150-120 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

lying trident with two dolphins (position: in exergue)
ΒΥ (position: on the left)

Persons

Sitter

Alexander der Große 🔍 ❐

stated authority

Lysimachos 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

tetradrachm 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Weight

15.00 g

Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,
Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.
Provenience: Gorny&Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung, Auktion 115, lot 1108

Literature

Marinescu, Making and Spending Money Along the Bosporus: the Lysimachi Coinages Minted by Byzantium and Chalcedon and their Socio-Cultural Context, 1996 p. 144, nr. 401-402 (Issue 127?, 175-150 BC)   ❐

Marinescu, Making and Spending Money Along the Bosporus: the Lysimachi Coinages Minted by Byzantium and Chalcedon and their Socio-Cultural Context, 1996 p. 144 (Issue 127, this type?)   ❐

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cn coin 51985, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_51985 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/07]

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