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cn coin 11668

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CN Type 20106 🔍

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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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)
Symbol
ΒΥ (position: Beneath throne) lying trident (position: in exergue)
Persons

Sitter: Alexander der Große 🔍  

stated authority: Lysimachos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Attic
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
32 mm
Weight
14.54 g
Axis
11
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: R 1971

Provenience: Henri Seyrig

Literature

de Callataÿ, L'histoire des guerres mithridatiques vue par les monnaies, Louvain-La-Neuve 1997 p. 125, nr. Group 3 (D44-D53, 90-81 BC)  ❐

Hoover, Handbook of coins of Macedon and its neighbors. Part II: Thrace, Skythia, and Taurike: sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, Pa. London 2017 p. 85, nr. 1406 (c. 90-81 BC.)  ❐

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cn coin 11668, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_11668 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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