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cn coin 9501

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CN Type 20100 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

196 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) seated left, holding Nike and spear; shield behind.
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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: on the left)
Symbol
ΒΥ (position: Beneath throne) lying trident with two dolphins (position: in exergue)
Persons

Sitter: Alexander der Große 🔍  

stated authority: Lysimachos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
stater 🔍  
Standard: Attic
Material
gold 🔍  
Diameter
20.8 mm
Weight
8.48 g
Owner

Museum August Kestner, Hannover, Hannover, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 1942.38.1

Literature

Marinescu, Making and Spending Money Along the Bosporus: the Lysimachi Coinages Minted by Byzantium and Chalcedon and their Socio-Cultural Context, 1996 p. 156, nr. 453, pl. 38, pic. 453 (Issue 135.)  ❐

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cn coin 9501, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_9501 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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