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cn coin 30769

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CN Type 20097 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 190-175 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
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Attic
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
36 mm
Weight
12.93 g
Axis
12
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18267735

Provenience: 1928/367

Findspot

Babylon, iq [iq] ❐

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IGCH 1774 ❐

Public Commentary

Im linken Feld undeutliches Monogramm. Indistinct monogram in the left field.

Citation

Regling, Hellenistischer Münzschatz aus Babylon 38, 1928 p. 104, nr. 8  ❐

Marinescu, Making and Spending Money Along the Bosporus: the Lysimachi Coinages Minted by Byzantium and Chalcedon and their Socio-Cultural Context, 1996 p. 122, nr. 287.1, pl. 24  ❐

Literature

Stancomb, The William Stancomb collection of coins of the Black Sea region, 2000 nr. 6 (c. 195-150 BC.)  ❐

Marinescu, Making and Spending Money Along the Bosporus: the Lysimachi Coinages Minted by Byzantium and Chalcedon and their Socio-Cultural Context, 1996 p. 120-121, nr. 277-282, pl. 24 (Issue 108, 190-175 BC.)  ❐

Müller, Die Münzen des Thracischen Königs Lysimachus, Kopenhagen 1858 nr. 215 ❐

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cn coin 30769, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_30769 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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