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cn type 20132

Edition
cn.byzantium.1_ed.136
Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 240-225 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) Monogram reverse (position: in exergue)
Persons

Sitter: Alexander der Große 🔍  

stated authority: Lysimachos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Attic
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
29 mm (1x)
Average Weight
16.61 g (1x)
Axes
12 (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. 80, nr. 136, pl. 12, pic. 136 (Issue 57, dated c. 230-220 BC.)  ❐

editions

cn.byzantium.1_ed.136  🔍

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cn type 20132, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/cn.byzantium.1_ed.136 [Last downloaded: 2026/04/21]

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