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cn coin 30744

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CN Type 20182 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 235-225 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) trident (position: in exergue)
Persons

Sitter: Alexander der Große 🔍  

stated authority: Lysimachos 🔍  

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

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18267413

Provenience: 1873 Fox - Vorbesitzer Smythe, 6. Viscount Strangford

Citation

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 306, nr. 51  ❐

Literature

Marinescu, Making and Spending Money Along the Bosporus: the Lysimachi Coinages Minted by Byzantium and Chalcedon and their Socio-Cultural Context, 1996 p. 76, nr. 124, pl. 11 (Issue 49, 235-225 BC.)  ❐

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cn coin 30744, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_30744 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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