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cn coin 39238

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CN Type 11903 🔍

Coinage
 

Ruler: Lysimachos (Hellenistic King)  

Mint
Sestos 🔍  

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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Symbol
forepart of lion, left (position: on the left)
Persons

Sitter: Alexander der Große 🔍  

Authority: Lysimachos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
28 mm
Weight
17.04 g
Axis
5
Owner

American Numismatic Society, New York, us ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 1944.100.45283

Provenience: Bequest of E.T. Newell, ETN; St. Louis, 13 Apr. 1928; Schulman FPL 78, Apr. 1928, #1271

Hoard

IGCH 1423 ❐

Literature

Thompson, The mints of Lysimachus, 1968 p. 170, nr. 23 ❐

Thompson, The mints of Lysimachus, 1968 p. 170, nr. 23 ❐

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cn coin 39238, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_39238 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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