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cn coin 5965

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CN Type 12054 🔍

Coinage
 

Ruler: Lysimachos (Hellenistic King)  

Mint
Ainos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 297-250 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 / i.f.l. mon. *ΑΕ*
Design
Athena (Nikephoros) enthroned to left, holding Nike in outstretched right hand; left arm resting on shield behind, decorated with lion's head; in background, transverse spear; in inner left field, cult image of Hermes Perpheraios facing; beneath, monogram.
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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: on the left)
Symbol
enthroned cult image (position: at the bottom left)
Persons

Sitter: Alexander der Große 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Euboic /Attic
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
28.8 mm
Weight
16.98 g
Axis
3
Owner

Coll. H.I., , de

Literature

Müller, Die Münzen des Thracischen Königs Lysimachus, Kopenhagen 1858 nr. 114 ❐

Thompson, The mints of Lysimachus, 1968 p. 182, nr. 257 ❐

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cn coin 5965, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_5965 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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