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CN Type 20760 🔍

Coinage
 

Ruler: Lysimachos (Hellenistic King)  

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 150-120 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Diademed head of deified Alexander the Great with horn of Ammon, right.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse 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
lying trident with two dolphins (position: in exergue) ΒΥ (position: Beneath throne)
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: Lanz 102 (28.05.2001) 100.

Literature

Marinescu, Making and Spending Money Along the Bosporus: the Lysimachi Coinages Minted by Byzantium and Chalcedon and their Socio-Cultural Context, 1996 p. 272f. (Issue 150, c. 150-120 BC)  ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 53097, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_53097 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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