cn coin 56705

Mint

Byzantion 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐

Date

c. 90-81 BC
Hellenistic Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Diademed head of deified Alexander the Great with horn of Ammon, right.
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Countermark

CL CAES (Howgego 838)

Reverse

Legend

ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟΥ

Design

Athena (Nikephoros) seated left, holding Nike and spear; shield behind.
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Symbol

ΒΥ (position: Beneath throne)
lying trident with two dolphins (position: below)

Persons

Sitter

Alexander der Große 🔍 ❐

stated authority

Lysimachos 🔍 ❐

Pecularities

Pierced. On the reverse, graffito Δ.

Metrology

Denomination

tetradrachm 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

32 mm

Weight

11.73 g

Axis

12

Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de  ❐
Owner Inventory No.: 18310085
Provenience: Prokesch-Osten 1875

Citation

Prokesch-Osten, Autonome thrakische Münzen der Sammlung Prokesch-Osten 4, 1872 p. 227, nr. 66  ❐

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 324, nr. 166  ❐

de Callataÿ, L'histoire des guerres mithridatiques vue par les monnaies, Louvain-La-Neuve 1997 p. 125, nr. D31/R?  (Group 3)  ❐

Peuckert, Von Lysimachos bis in römische Zeit: Eine Tetradrachme mit dem Gegenstempel CL CAES 73, 2024 p. 285-286  ❐

Literature

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/476094  ❐

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cn coin 56705, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_56705 [Last downloaded: 2024/10/07]

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