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cn coin 6263

Connected to Type

CN Type 20150 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 175-150 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: Euboic /Attic
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 33 mm / Min: 30 mm
Weight
15.43 g
Axis
12
Owner

W.M. Stancomb, Devizes, gb

Owner Inventory No.: 9

Citation

Stancomb, The William Stancomb collection of coins of the Black Sea region, 2000 nr. 9  ❐

Literature

Marinescu, Making and Spending Money Along the Bosporus: the Lysimachi Coinages Minted by Byzantium and Chalcedon and their Socio-Cultural Context, 1996 nr. 127 ❐

Stancomb, The William Stancomb collection of coins of the Black Sea region, 2000 nr. 9 (c. 75-65 BC.)  ❐

Marinescu, Making and Spending Money Along the Bosporus: the Lysimachi Coinages Minted by Byzantium and Chalcedon and their Socio-Cultural Context, 1996 p. 144-145, nr. 401-402, pl. 34 (Issue 127, c. 175-150 BC.)  ❐

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cn coin 6263, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6263 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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