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cn coin 9510

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CN Type 20153 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 150-120 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 🔍  

Authority: Lysimachos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Attic
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
16.77 g
Owner

Museum August Kestner, Hannover, Hannover, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 1984.17

Provenience: Ex Hirsch 141 (4 April 1984), 163

Literature

Marinescu, Making and Spending Money Along the Bosporus: the Lysimachi Coinages Minted by Byzantium and Chalcedon and their Socio-Cultural Context, 1996 p. 184, nr. 582, pl. 49, pic. 582 (Issue 158, c. 150-120 BC.)  ❐

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cn coin 9510, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_9510 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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