cn type 20162

Edition

cn.byzantium.1_ed.161

Mint

Byzantion 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐

Date

c. 190-175 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

35 mm (1x)

Average Weight

16.28 g (1x)

Axes

12 (1x)

Literature

Marinescu, Making and Spending Money Along the Bosporus: the Lysimachi Coinages Minted by Byzantium and Chalcedon and their Socio-Cultural Context, 1996 p. 126-127, nr. 259-261, pl. 22 (Issue 103, 190-175 BC.)   ❐

Müller, Die Münzen des Thracischen Königs Lysimachus, Kopenhagen 1858 nr. 188  ❐

editions

cn.byzantium.1_ed.161 🔍

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cn type 20162, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/cn.byzantium.1_ed.161 [Last downloaded: 2024/10/04]

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