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cn coin 11627

Connected to Type

CN Type 20195 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 260-245 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Diademed head of deified Alexander the Great with horn of Ammon, right.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ - ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟΥ
Design
Athena (Nikephoros) seated left, holding Nike and spear; shield behind.
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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: on the left)
Persons

Sitter: Alexander der Große 🔍  

stated authority: Lysimachos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Attic
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
16.91 g
Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Owner Inventory No.: R 1955

Provenience: Henri Seyrig

Citation

Marinescu, Making and Spending Money Along the Bosporus: the Lysimachi Coinages Minted by Byzantium and Chalcedon and their Socio-Cultural Context, 1996 p. 52, nr. 41.1, pl. 4  (Issue 15, c. 260-245 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. 51-52, nr. 39-42, pl. 4 (Issue 15, c. 260-245 BC.)  ❐

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cn coin 11627, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_11627 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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