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cn coin 6276

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CN Type 20151 🔍

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Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

80-70 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 / i.f. mon. ΒΥ
Design
Athena (Nikephoros) enthroned left, holding Nike in outstretched right hand, left arm resting on shield behind, decorated with head of Helios; in exergue trident to left; monogram in inner left field, and on throne.
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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: on the left)
Persons

Sitter: Alexander der Große 🔍  

stated authority: Lysimachos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Euboic /Attic
Material
Diameter
34 mm
Weight
15.30 g
Axis
11
Owner

W.M. Stancomb, Devizes, gb

Public Commentary

Dating by Stancomb: c. 90-81 BC

Citation

Stancomb, The William Stancomb collection of coins of the Black Sea region, 2000 nr. 8 

Literature

de Callataÿ, L'histoire des guerres mithridatiques vue par les monnaies, Louvain-La-Neuve 1997 (Group 4 D40/51 - R1/33) 

de Callataÿ, L'histoire des guerres mithridatiques vue par les monnaies, Louvain-La-Neuve 1997 p. 136

Müller, Die Münzen des Thracischen Königs Lysimachus, Kopenhagen 1858 nr. 192

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 192

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cn coin 6276, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6276 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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