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cn type 20765

Edition
cn.byzantium.1_ed.114
Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 260-245 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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Symbol
Δ (position: on the left)
Persons

Sitter: Alexander der Große 🔍  

stated authority: Lysimachos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Attic
Material
silver 🔍  
Average Weight
16.86 g (1x)
Literature

Marinescu, Making and Spending Money Along the Bosporus: the Lysimachi Coinages Minted by Byzantium and Chalcedon and their Socio-Cultural Context, 1996 p. 63 (Issue 35, 260-245 BC)  ❐

editions

cn.byzantium.1_ed.114  🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 20765, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/cn.byzantium.1_ed.114 [Last downloaded: 2026/04/19]

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