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cn coin 6260

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CN Type 20096 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 275-260 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; mon. ΣΙ
Design
Athena (Nikephoros) seated left, holding Nike and spear; shield behind.
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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: in exergue)
Persons

Sitter: Alexander der Große 🔍  

stated authority: Lysimachos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Attic
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
27 mm
Weight
17.00 g
Axis
2
Owner

W.M. Stancomb, Devizes, gb

Owner Inventory No.: 4

Provenience: Gorny 02.04.1990,162.

Citation

Stancomb, The William Stancomb collection of coins of the Black Sea region, 2000 nr. 4  ❐

Stancomb, Some Countermarked and Overstruck Hellenistic Coins from the Region of the Thracian Bosporus 167, 2007 p. 25, nr. 1, pl. 3, pic. 1  ❐

Literature

Stancomb, The William Stancomb collection of coins of the Black Sea region, 2000 nr. 4 ❐

Stancomb, Some Countermarked and Overstruck Hellenistic Coins from the Region of the Thracian Bosporus 167, 2007 p. 25, nr. 1, pl. 3, pic. 1 ❐

Marinescu, Making and Spending Money Along the Bosporus: the Lysimachi Coinages Minted by Byzantium and Chalcedon and their Socio-Cultural Context, 1996 p. 40, nr. 8-9, pl. 1, pic. 8 (Issue 5, early 260s BC.)  ❐

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cn coin 6260, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6260 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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