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cn type 12553

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 80-75 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
ΒΥ (position: Beneath throne) lying trident with two dolphins (position: Beneath throne)
Persons

Sitter: Alexander der Große 🔍  

stated authority: Lysimachos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Attic
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
33 mm (1x)
Average Weight
15.85 g (3x)
Axes
12 (1x)
Literature

de Callataÿ, L'histoire des guerres mithridatiques vue par les monnaies, Louvain-La-Neuve 1997 p. 127.133 ❐

Marinescu, Making and Spending Money Along the Bosporus: the Lysimachi Coinages Minted by Byzantium and Chalcedon and their Socio-Cultural Context, 1996 p. 191, nr. 611-618, pl. 51-52 (Issue 164, ca. 120-110 BC.)  ❐

editions

cn.byzantium.1_ed.215  🔍

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cn type 12553, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/12553 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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