cn type 20990

Mint

Byzantion 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐

Date

c. 230-220 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  🔍 ❐

Average Weight

16.87 g (1x)

Citation

Marinescu, Making and Spending Money Along the Bosporus: the Lysimachi Coinages Minted by Byzantium and Chalcedon and their Socio-Cultural Context, 1996 p. 78f., nr. 130f. ❐

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cn type 20990, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/20990 [Last downloaded: 2023/02/06]

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