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cn type 20733

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 230 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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Symbol
trident (position: in exergue) head of lion (position: on the left)
Persons

Sitter: Alexander der Große 🔍  

stated authority: Lysimachos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
stater 🔍  
Standard: Attic
Material
gold 🔍  
Average Weight
8.48 g (2x)
Citation

Marinescu, Making and Spending Money Along the Bosporus: the Lysimachi Coinages Minted by Byzantium and Chalcedon and their Socio-Cultural Context, 1996 p. 74, nr. 47  ❐

editions

cn.byzantium.1_ed.139  🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 20733, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/20733 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/22]

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