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cn type 20738

Coinage
 

Ruler: Lysimachos (Hellenistic King)  

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

220-210 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Diademed head of deified Alexander the Great with horn of Ammon, right.
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Reverse
Legend
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
lying trident with two dolphins (position: in exergue) ΠΥ (position: Beneath throne)
Persons

Sitter: Alexander der Große 🔍  

stated authority: Lysimachos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
stater 🔍  
Standard: Attic
Material
gold 🔍  
Average Weight
8.48 g (1x)
Citation

Nicolet, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. Bibliothèque nationale, Cabinet des médailles, Collection Jean et Marie Delepierre, Paris 1983 nr. 794  ❐

Marinescu, Making and Spending Money Along the Bosporus: the Lysimachi Coinages Minted by Byzantium and Chalcedon and their Socio-Cultural Context, 1996 nr. 161  ❐

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cn type 20738, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/20738 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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