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cn coin 54755

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CN Type 12994 🔍

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
ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟΥ
Design
Athena (Nikephoros) seated left, holding Nike and spear; shield behind.
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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: )
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 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 36.5 mm / Min: 33.5 mm
Weight
16.68 g
Axis
12
Owner

Coll. B. Awianowicz, Toruń, pl

Literature

Marinescu, Making and Spending Money Along the Bosporus: the Lysimachi Coinages Minted by Byzantium and Chalcedon and their Socio-Cultural Context, 1996 p. 182-183, nr. 573-579, pl. 48-49 (Issue 157, c. 150-120 BC.)  ❐

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cn coin 54755, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_54755 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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