cn type 20742

Ruler  ❐

Ruler: Lysimachos (Hellenistic King) ❐

Mint

Byzantion 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐

Date

220-210 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

lying trident with two dolphins (position: in exergue)
ΣΦ (position: on the left)
ΒΥ (position: Beneath throne)

Persons

Sitter

Alexander der Große 🔍 ❐

stated authority

Lysimachos 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

stater 🔍 ❐

Material

gold  🔍 ❐

Diameter

20 mm (1x)

Average Weight

8.43 g (1x)

Axes

12 (1x)

Citation

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 306, nr. 53  ❐

Marinescu, Making and Spending Money Along the Bosporus: the Lysimachi Coinages Minted by Byzantium and Chalcedon and their Socio-Cultural Context, 1996 p. 93, nr. 170  ❐

Literature

Müller, Die Münzen des Thracischen Königs Lysimachus, Kopenhagen 1858 nr. 14  ❐

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cn type 20742, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/20742 [Last downloaded: 2025/06/20]

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