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cn coin 25877

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Kallatis 🔍  

Region: Moesia inferior  

Date

c. 250-c. 225 BC (Price)

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Heracles, right, wearing lion skin, knotted around neck.
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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, monogram.
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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: not specified) Monogram reverse (position: not specified) Monogram reverse (position: not specified)
Persons

stated authority: Alexander der Große 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Euboic /Attic
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
30 mm
Weight
16.72 g
Axis
12
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 41836919

Literature

Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 nr. 944 ❐

Web Reference: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b103045268 ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 25877, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_25877 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/23]

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