Tetradrachm In the name of Lysimachus

Features

Issuer	Kalchedon (Bithynia)
Stated authority	Lysimachus (304 BC - 281 BC)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	195 BC - 190 BC
Value	Tetradrachm (4)
Currency	Attic drachm
Composition	Silver
Weight	17 g
Diameter	34 mm
Shape	Round (irregular)
Technique	Hammered
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 554943
References	Marinescu# 126 Constantin A. Marinescu; 1996. Making and Spending Money Along the Bosporus: The Lysimachi Coinages Minted by Byzantium and Chalcedon and their Socio-Cultural Context. New York City, New York, United States. , Müller Lysimachus# 377 Ludvig Müller; 1858. Die Münzen des Thracischen Königs Lysimachus = The Coins of the Thracian King Lysimachus. Imprimerie de Bianco Luno, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Obverse

Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon.

Reverse

Athena Nikephoros seated left, left arm resting on shield, transverse spear in background; ΛΥ to inner left; ear of wheat and ΚΑΛΧΑ in the exergue.

Script: Greek

Lettering:
ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟY
ΚΑΛΧΑ

Mint

Calchedon, Bithynia, modern-day Kadıköy, Turkey

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (195 BC - 190 BC)

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