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cn coin 30740

Connected to Type

CN Type 20187 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 150-120 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 with two dolphins (position: in exergue)
Persons

Sitter: Alexander der Große 🔍  

stated authority: Lysimachos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
stater 🔍  
Standard: Attic
Material
gold 🔍  
Diameter
20 mm
Weight
8.41 g
Axis
12
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18267401

Provenience: 1873 Fox - Veru00e4uu00dferer (an Vorbesitzer) Alexandros III. von Makedonien

Literature

Marinescu, Making and Spending Money Along the Bosporus: the Lysimachi Coinages Minted by Byzantium and Chalcedon and their Socio-Cultural Context, 1996 p. 166-167, nr. 487-490, pl. 41 (Issue 143, 150-120 BC.)  ❐

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cn coin 30740, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_30740 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/22]

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