cn type 21553

Mint

Byzantion 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐

Date

c. 150-120 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 (position: in exergue)

Persons

Sitter

Alexander der Große 🔍 ❐

stated authority

Lysimachos 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

tetradrachm 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Average Weight

16.69 g (2x)

Public Commentary

The coin was assigned to this type by Marinescu, although the monogram differs from his drawing.

Literature

Marinescu, Making and Spending Money Along the Bosporus: the Lysimachi Coinages Minted by Byzantium and Chalcedon and their Socio-Cultural Context, 1996 p. 263f., nr. 471-475 (Issue 139)   ❐

Cite this record:

cn type 21553, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/21553 [Last downloaded: 2025/06/16]

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