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cn coin 51760

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CN Type 20169 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 155-150 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
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 🔍  
Weight
16.88 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: The New York Sale eA 20 (07.01.2009) lot 128, Ex Münzen und Medaillen AG, Basel – Fixed Price List 379 (2976), 2.

Literature

Müller, Die Münzen des Thracischen Königs Lysimachus, Kopenhagen 1858 nr. 162 ❐

Marinescu, Making and Spending Money Along the Bosporus: the Lysimachi Coinages Minted by Byzantium and Chalcedon and their Socio-Cultural Context, 1996 p. 136-137, nr. 352-357, pl. 30 (Issue 122, 175-150 BC. On the Babylon hoard ibid. p. 291 n. 39 ( 155-150 BC).)  ❐

Regling, Hellenistischer Münzschatz aus Babylon 38, 1928 p. 104, nr. 6 ❐

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cn coin 51760, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_51760 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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