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cn coin 30718

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CN Type 19760 🔍

Coinage
 

Ruler: Alexander der Große (Hellenistic King)  

Mint
Samothrake 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 200 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

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

stated authority: Alexander der Große 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Attic
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
34 mm
Weight
16.99 g
Axis
11
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18254220

Provenience: 1875 Prokesch-Osten - Vorbesitzer Prokesch von Osten

Citation

Prokesch-Osten, Liste des Alexandres de ma collection qui ne se trouvent pas dans le Catalogue de Mr. L. Müller 1, 1869 p. 50, nr. 259  ❐

Literature

Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 nr. 538 (not seen)  ❐

Prokesch-Osten, Liste des Alexandres de ma collection qui ne se trouvent pas dans le Catalogue de Mr. L. Müller 1, 1869 p. 50, nr. 259 ❐

Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 p. 153, nr. 662 (Different monogram unter the throne.)  ❐

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cn coin 30718, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_30718 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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