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cn coin 6272

Date

c. 235-223 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) enthroned left, holding Nike in outstretched right hand; left arm resting on shield behind, decorated with gorgoneion; in background, transverse spear; in left field, monogram.
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Persons

Sitter: Alexander der Große 🔍  

Authority: Lysimachos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Euboic /Attic
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
29 mm
Weight
16.70 g
Axis
12
Owner

W.M. Stancomb, Devizes, gb

Literature

Marinescu and Lorber, The Black Sea Tetradrachm Hoard, 2012 p. 218, nr. 360, pl. 12, pic. 360 ❐

Marinescu, Making and Spending Money Along the Bosporus: the Lysimachi Coinages Minted by Byzantium and Chalcedon and their Socio-Cultural Context, 1996 nr. 42 ❐

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cn coin 6272, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6272 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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