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cn coin 9543

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CN Type 20098 🔍

Coinage
 

Ruler: Lysimachos (Hellenistic King)  

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 90-81 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Diademed head of deified Alexander the Great with horn of Ammon, right.
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Reverse
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Legend reverse ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ - ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟΥ
Design
Athena (Nikephoros) enthroned left, holding Nike in outstretched right hand; transverse spear in background; left arm resting on shield behind; ornate trident in exergue; monogram to inner left and on throne.
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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: on the left)
Persons

Sitter: Alexander der Große 🔍  

Authority: Lysimachos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Attic
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
35.6 mm
Weight
16.32 g
Owner

Museum August Kestner, Hannover, Hannover, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 1924.97

Literature

Müller, Die Münzen des Thracischen Königs Lysimachus, Kopenhagen 1858 nr. 198 ❐

de Callataÿ, L'histoire des guerres mithridatiques vue par les monnaies, Louvain-La-Neuve 1997 p. 125 (Groupe 3; D 36-39/R 1-5, ca. 90-81 BC)  ❐

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cn coin 9543, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_9543 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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