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cn coin 6788

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CN Type 11903 🔍

Coinage
 

Ruler: Lysimachos (Hellenistic King)  

Mint
Sestos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 297-281 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 with lion's head behind; in background, transverse spear; in inner left field, lion forepart, left.
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Symbol
forepart of lion, left (position: on the left)
Persons

Sitter: Alexander der Große 🔍  

Authority: Lysimachos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
30 mm
Weight
16.69 g
Axis
9
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18249706

Provenience: 1906 Löbbecke - Vorbesitzer Löbbecke

Literature

Thompson, The mints of Lysimachus, 1968 p. 170, nr. 23 ❐

Thompson, The mints of Lysimachus, 1968 p. 170, nr. 23 ❐

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cn coin 6788, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6788 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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