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cn type 12993

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 150-120 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 🔍  
Standard: Attic
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 34 mm / Min: 31.5 mm
Average Weight
16.86 g (2x)
Axes
12 (2x)
Literature

Marinescu, Making and Spending Money Along the Bosporus: the Lysimachi Coinages Minted by Byzantium and Chalcedon and their Socio-Cultural Context, 1996 p. 179-180, nr. 553-560, pl. 47 (Issue 154, c. 150-120 BC.)  ❐

editions

cn.byzantium.1_ed.188  🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 12993, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/12993 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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