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cn coin 11633

Connected to Type

CN Type 21543 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

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
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
17.08 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: R 1957

Provenience: Henri Seyrig

Literature

Marinescu, Making and Spending Money Along the Bosporus: the Lysimachi Coinages Minted by Byzantium and Chalcedon and their Socio-Cultural Context, 1996 nr. 54-57 (Issue 22, 260-245 BC)  ❐

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cn coin 11633, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_11633 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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