cn type 20109

Mint

Byzantion 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐

Date

c. 175-150 BC
Hellenistic Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Diademed head of deified Alexander the Great with horn of Ammon, right.

Reverse

Legend

ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟΥ

Design

Athena (Nikephoros) seated left, holding Nike and spear; shield behind.

Monogram

(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: 34 mm / Min: 33 mm

Average Weight

16.72 g (1x)

Axes

12 (1x)

Literature

de Callataÿ, L'histoire des guerres mithridatiques vue par les monnaies, Louvain-La-Neuve 1997 pl. 38, pic. F ❐

Cite this record:

cn type 20109, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/20109 [Last downloaded: 2023/02/06]

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