cn coin 6272
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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
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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