cn type 20096
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cn type 20096-1
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cn type 20096

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 275-260 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: in exergue)
Persons

Sitter: Alexander der Große 🔍  

stated authority: Lysimachos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Attic
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
27 mm (1x)
Average Weight
17.00 g (1x)
Axes
2 (1x)
Literature

Stancomb, The William Stancomb collection of coins of the Black Sea region, 2000 nr. 4 ❐

Stancomb, Some Countermarked and Overstruck Hellenistic Coins from the Region of the Thracian Bosporus 167, 2007 p. 25, nr. 1, pl. 3, pic. 1 ❐

Marinescu, Making and Spending Money Along the Bosporus: the Lysimachi Coinages Minted by Byzantium and Chalcedon and their Socio-Cultural Context, 1996 p. 40, nr. 8-9, pl. 1, pic. 8 (Issue 5, early 260s BC.)  ❐

editions

cn.byzantium.1_ed.110  🔍

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cn type 20096, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/20096 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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