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cn coin 40666

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CN Type 12992 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 150-120 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
38 mm
Weight
17.02 g
Axis
12
Owner

Coll. C.S. Okray, Ankara, tr

Owner Inventory No.: 311

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Citation

Arslan et al., Antike Münzen von Thrakien und Moesien aus öffentlichen und privaten Sammlungen der Türkei, Berlin-Boston 2021 p. 174, nr. 1503, pl. LXXXI, pic. 1503  ❐

Literature

Marinescu, Making and Spending Money Along the Bosporus: the Lysimachi Coinages Minted by Byzantium and Chalcedon and their Socio-Cultural Context, 1996 p. 174-175, nr. 526-532, pl. 44-45 (Issue 151, c. 150-120 BC.)  ❐

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cn coin 40666, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_40666 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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