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cn coin 2488

Connected to Type

CN Type 5190 🔍

Date

before 281 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Skos_V_Alex_Td_001 🔍
Design
Diademed head of deified Alexander the Great with horn of Ammon, right.
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Reverse
Die
Skos_R_Athena_Td_001 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ - ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟΥ // ΣΚΟΣΤΟΚΟΥ
Design
Athena (Nikephoros) enthroned left, holding Nike, crowning king's name, in outstretched right hand; left arm resting on shield behind.
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Symbol
herm (position: on the left)
Persons

Sitter: Alexander der Große 🔍  

stated authority: Lysimachos 🔍  

Authority: Skostokos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 27.8 mm / Min: 27.2 mm
Weight
16.64 g
Axis
2
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18210562

Provenience: Bei Herrn Kube in Berlin erworben.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Berlin 94

Citation

Peter, Die Münzen der thrakischen Dynasten (5. - 3. Jahrhundert v. Chr.): Hintergründe ihrer Prägung, Berlin 1997 p. 218  ❐

Literature

Jurukova, Coins of the ancient Thracians [engl.] Transl. from the Bulgarian Yordanka Youroukova, 1976 p. 81, nr. 103-104 ❐

Peter, Die Münzen der thrakischen Dynasten (5. - 3. Jahrhundert v. Chr.): Hintergründe ihrer Prägung, Berlin 1997 p. 218 ❐

Jurukova, Coins of the ancient Thracians [engl.] Transl. from the Bulgarian Yordanka Youroukova, 1976 p. 81, nr. 103-104 ❐

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cn coin 2488, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_2488 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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