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cn coin 47979

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CN Type 12079 🔍

Coinage
 

Ruler: Lysimachos (Hellenistic King)  

Mint
Lysimacheia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

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: below)
Symbol
head of lion (position: on the left)
Persons

Sitter: Alexander der Große 🔍  

Authority: Lysimachos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
16.77 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Gorny&Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung, Auktion 97, 11.10.1999, lot 180

Literature

Thompson, The mints of Lysimachus, 1968 p. 169, nr. 16, pl. 16 ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 47979, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_47979 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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