cn type 12554
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cn type 12554

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: in exergue)
Persons

Sitter: Alexander der Große 🔍  

stated authority: Lysimachos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 36.5 mm / Min: 35 mm
Average Weight
15.44 g (2x)
Axes
12 (2x)
Literature

de Callataÿ, L'histoire des guerres mithridatiques vue par les monnaies, Louvain-La-Neuve 1997 p. 126 ❐

editions

cn.byzantium.1_ed.216  🔍

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cn type 12554, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/12554 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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