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cn coin 6261

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CN Type 20097 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 190-175 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
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 with two dolphins (position: in exergue)
Persons

Sitter: Alexander der Große 🔍  

stated authority: Lysimachos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Attic
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 34 mm / Min: 31.5 mm
Weight
16.62 g
Axis
12
Owner

W.M. Stancomb, Devizes, gb

Owner Inventory No.: 6

Citation

Stancomb, The William Stancomb collection of coins of the Black Sea region, 2000 nr. 6  ❐

Literature

Stancomb, The William Stancomb collection of coins of the Black Sea region, 2000 nr. 6 (c. 195-150 BC.)  ❐

Marinescu, Making and Spending Money Along the Bosporus: the Lysimachi Coinages Minted by Byzantium and Chalcedon and their Socio-Cultural Context, 1996 p. 120-121, nr. 277-282, pl. 24 (Issue 108, 190-175 BC.)  ❐

Müller, Die Münzen des Thracischen Königs Lysimachus, Kopenhagen 1858 nr. 215 ❐

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cn coin 6261, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6261 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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