cn type 20150

Edition

An edition has been created for this type.🔍

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.
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Reverse

Legend

ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟΥ

Design

Athena (Nikephoros) seated left, holding Nike and spear; shield behind.
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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: 33 mm / Min: 30 mm

Average Weight

15.43 g (1x)

Axes

12 (1x)

Literature

Stancomb, The William Stancomb collection of coins of the Black Sea region, 2000 nr. 9 (c. 75-65 BC.)   ❐

Marinescu, Making and Spending Money Along the Bosporus: the Lysimachi Coinages Minted by Byzantium and Chalcedon and their Socio-Cultural Context, 1996 p. 144-145, nr. 401-402, pl. 34 (Issue 127, c. 175-150 BC.)   ❐

editions

cn.byzantium.1_ed.170 🔍

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cn type 20150, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/20150 [Last downloaded: 2025/06/19]

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