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cn coin 51987

Connected to Type

CN Type 21188 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

späte 260er Jahre 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
trident (position: in exergue)
Persons

Sitter: Alexander der Große 🔍  

stated authority: Lysimachos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Attic
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
17.00 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Gorny&Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung Auktion 130, lot 1112

Literature

Marinescu, Making and Spending Money Along the Bosporus: the Lysimachi Coinages Minted by Byzantium and Chalcedon and their Socio-Cultural Context, 1996 p. 44, nr. 23-25 (late 260s BC)  ❐

Marinescu, Making and Spending Money Along the Bosporus: the Lysimachi Coinages Minted by Byzantium and Chalcedon and their Socio-Cultural Context, 1996 p. 44, nr. 23-25 (late 260s BC)  ❐

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cn coin 51987, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_51987 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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