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cn coin 54295

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CN Type 21556 🔍

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 (position: below)
Persons

Sitter: Alexander der Große 🔍  

stated authority: Lysimachos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
stater 🔍  
Standard: Attic
Material
gold 🔍  
Weight
8.49 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Gorny & Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung eA 211 (04.03.2013) lot 153

Literature

Müller, Die Münzen des Thracischen Königs Lysimachus, Kopenhagen 1858 nr. 165-166 ❐

Marinescu, Making and Spending Money Along the Bosporus: the Lysimachi Coinages Minted by Byzantium and Chalcedon and their Socio-Cultural Context, 1996 nr. 384-386 (Issue 125, 175-150 BC.)  ❐

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cn coin 54295, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_54295 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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