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cn coin 37571

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CN Type 12599 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 120-75 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Diademed head of deified Alexander the Great with horn of Ammon, right.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse 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 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
34 mm
Weight
16.49 g
Axis
12
Owner

Edirne Müzesi, Edirne, tr ❐

Owner Inventory No.: Y-8

Citation

Arslan et al., Antike Münzen von Thrakien und Moesien aus öffentlichen und privaten Sammlungen der Türkei, Berlin-Boston 2021 p. 50, nr. 383, pl. XXII  ❐

Literature

Müller, Die Münzen des Thracischen Königs Lysimachus, Kopenhagen 1858 nr. 186 ❐

de Callataÿ, L'histoire des guerres mithridatiques vue par les monnaies, Louvain-La-Neuve 1997 p. 124 (90-81 BC)  ❐

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cn coin 37571, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_37571 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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