cn type 20101
cn type 20101-0
cn type 20101-1
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cn type 20101

Mint
Samothrake 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 297/296-282/281 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: Beneath throne) Monogram reverse (position: on the left)
Persons

Sitter: Alexander der Große 🔍  

Authority: Lysimachos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Euboic /Attic
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 30 mm / Min: 29 mm
Average Weight
16.84 g (1x)
Axes
12 (1x)
Literature

Thompson, The mints of Lysimachus, 1968 nr. 195 ❐

Müller, Die Münzen des Thracischen Königs Lysimachus, Kopenhagen 1858 nr. 101 ❐

Mannsperger and Balluff, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : Deutschland [1] Münzsammlung der Universität Tübingen H. 2 Taurische Chersones - Korkyra: Nr. 731 - 1542, 1982 nr. 960 ❐

editions

cn.samothrace.1_ed.13  🔍

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cn type 20101, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/20101 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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