cn type 20149

Mint

Byzantion 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐

Date

c. 260-245 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)

Persons

Sitter

Alexander der Große 🔍 ❐

stated authority

Lysimachos 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

tetradrachm 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

31 mm (1x)

Average Weight

17.09 g (2x)

Axes

12 (1x)

Literature

Marinescu, Making and Spending Money Along the Bosporus: the Lysimachi Coinages Minted by Byzantium and Chalcedon and their Socio-Cultural Context, 1996 p. 65, nr. 90.1, pl. 8, pic. 90 ❐

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cn type 20149, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/20149 [Last downloaded: 2023/02/06]

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