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cn coin 56705

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 90-81 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Diademed head of deified Alexander the Great with horn of Ammon, right.
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Countermark
CL CAES (Howgego 838)
Reverse
Legend
ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟΥ
Design
Athena (Nikephoros) seated left, holding Nike and spear; shield behind.
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Symbol
ΒΥ (position: Beneath throne) lying trident with two dolphins (position: below)
Persons

Sitter: Alexander der Große 🔍  

stated authority: Lysimachos 🔍  

Pecularities

Pierced. On the reverse, graffito Δ.

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
32 mm
Weight
11.73 g
Axis
12
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18310085

Provenience: Prokesch-Osten 1875

Citation

Prokesch-Osten, Autonome thrakische Münzen der Sammlung Prokesch-Osten 4, 1872 p. 227, nr. 66  ❐

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 324, nr. 166  ❐

de Callataÿ, L'histoire des guerres mithridatiques vue par les monnaies, Louvain-La-Neuve 1997 p. 125, nr. D31/R?  (Group 3)  ❐

Peuckert, Von Lysimachos bis in römische Zeit: Eine Tetradrachme mit dem Gegenstempel CL CAES 73, 2024 p. 285-286  ❐

Literature

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/476094 ❐

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cn coin 56705, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_56705 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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