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cn coin 47540

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CN Type 12241 🔍

Coinage
 

Ruler: Lysimachos (Hellenistic King)  

Mint
Sestos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 297/296-282/281 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
blossom (position: on the left)
Persons

Sitter: Alexander der Große 🔍  

Authority: Lysimachos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
16.90 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Giessener Münzhandlung, Auktion 87, (02. März 1998) 100.

Literature

Thompson, The mints of Lysimachus, 1968 p. 170, nr. 29 ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 47540, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_47540 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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