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Tetradrachm In the name of Lysimachus

Issuer Byzantion (Thrace)
Year 175 BC - 150 BC
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Shape Round (irregular)
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Reverse description Athena Nikephoros seated left upon a throne, wearing helmet and aegis, her right hand extended to hold a winged Nike who crowns the royal name in the legend above. Her left arm rests upon a large round shield decorated with a gorgoneion in relief, while a long transverse spear leans behind her. A monogram appears in the inner left field, the civic letters BY are inscribed below the throne denoting the mint of Byzantion, and a filleted trident — the civic emblem of Byzantion — occupies the exergue. The legend ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟΥ, reading 'of King Lysimachus,' frames the composition.
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Reverse lettering ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟΥ
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Mint Byzantion, modern-day Istanbul, Turkey
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