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cn coin 7170

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CN Type 5190 🔍

Coinage
 

Ruler: Skostokos (Hellenistic King)  

Date

c. 297-281 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Diademed head of deified Alexander the Great with horn of Ammon, right. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ - ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟΥ // ΣΚΟΣΤΟΚΟΥ
Design
Athena (Nikephoros) enthroned left, holding Nike, crowning king's name, in outstretched right hand; left arm resting on shield behind.
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Symbol
herm (position: on the left)
Persons

stated authority: Alexander der Große 🔍  

Authority: Skostokos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 29 mm / Min: 28 mm
Weight
16.97 g
Axis
6
Owner

Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Münzkabinett, Dresden, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 2001/95

Provenience: Ex Auktion Gorny & Mosch 107, Nr. 102.

Literature

Peter, Die Münzen der thrakischen Dynasten (5. - 3. Jahrhundert v. Chr.): Hintergründe ihrer Prägung, Berlin 1997 p. 218 ❐

Jurukova, Coins of the ancient Thracians [engl.] Transl. from the Bulgarian Yordanka Youroukova, 1976 p. 81, nr. 103-104 ❐

Peter, Die Münzen der thrakischen Dynasten (5. - 3. Jahrhundert v. Chr.): Hintergründe ihrer Prägung, Berlin 1997 p. 218 ❐

Jurukova, Coins of the ancient Thracians [engl.] Transl. from the Bulgarian Yordanka Youroukova, 1976 p. 81, nr. 103-104 ❐

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cn coin 7170, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_7170 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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