cn type 21174

Edition

cn.byzantium.1_ed.183

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 with two dolphins (position: in exergue)

Persons

Sitter

Alexander der Große 🔍 ❐

stated authority

Lysimachos 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

stater 🔍 ❐

Material

gold  🔍 ❐

Average Weight

8.42 g (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. 285, nr. 587 (Issue 159, 150-120 BC, same monogram?)   ❐

editions

cn.byzantium.1_ed.183 🔍

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cn type 21174, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/cn.byzantium.1_ed.183 [Last downloaded: 2025/05/23]

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