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cn coin 51778

Connected to Type

CN Type 21191 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 175-150 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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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
stater 🔍  
Standard: Attic
Material
gold 🔍  
Weight
8.45 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Gorny&Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung Auktion 141, lot 84

Literature

Marinescu, Making and Spending Money Along the Bosporus: the Lysimachi Coinages Minted by Byzantium and Chalcedon and their Socio-Cultural Context, 1996 p. 149-151, nr. 422-433, pl. 36 (Issue 131, c. 175-150 BC.)  ❐

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cn coin 51778, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_51778 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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