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cn coin 25872

Mint
Kallatis 🔍  

Region: Moesia inferior  

Date

250-225 BC

Obverse
Design
Head of Heracles, right, wearing lion skin.
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Reverse
Legend
ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ
Design
Zeus (Aëtophoros) enthroned left, holding eagle and sceptre.
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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: on the left) Monogram reverse (position: Beneath throne)
Persons

stated authority: Alexander der Große 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
30 mm
Weight
16.81 g
Axis
5
Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 41836914

Provenience: 1967.91

Literature

Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 nr. 918 ❐

Web Reference: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b103045211 ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 25872, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_25872 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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