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cn coin 39145

Connected to Type

CN Type 12206 🔍

Mint
Ainos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 297-281 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) Monogram reverse (position: below)
Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Attic
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
16.84 g
Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb ❐

Owner Inventory No.: RPK,p87B.25.Lys

Provenience: Bequeathed by: Richard Payne Knight, 1824

Literature

Thompson, The mints of Lysimachus, 1968 p. 182, nr. 257 ❐

Thompson, The mints of Lysimachus, 1968 p. 182, nr. 257 ❐

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cn coin 39145, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_39145 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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