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cn coin 25875

Mint
Kallatis 🔍  

Region: Moesia inferior  

Date

250-225 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Heracles, right, wearing lion skin.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ - ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ
Design
Zeus (Aëtophoros) enthroned left, wearing long garment, holding eagle, right, in outstretched right hand and sceptre in left hand; in inner left field, monogram; below throne, ear of corn to right.
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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: on the left) Monogram reverse (position: on the left)
Symbol
corn-ear (position: in exergue)
Persons

stated authority: Alexander der Große 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
30 mm
Weight
16.62 g
Axis
12
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 41836917

Provenience: Fonds général.912

Literature

Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 nr. 922 (Difference to Price 923 only the arrangement of the monogramms.)  ❐

Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 nr. 923 (Difference to Price 922 only the arrangement of the monogramms.)  ❐

Web Reference: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10304524c ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 25875, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_25875 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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