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cn coin 42521

Connected to Type

CN Type 10003 🔍

Mint
Samothrake 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

172-168 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of bearded 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: in exergue)
Symbol
ΘΕΩΝΔΗΣ (position: on the left) caduceus (position: on the left) ram's head, left (position: Beneath throne)
Persons

stated authority: Alexander der Große 🔍  

Magistrate: Theondas 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: reduced Attic
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
16.52 g
Axis
1
Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 1985,0528.2

Literature

Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 nr. 663 ❐

Hoover, Handbook of coins of Macedon and its neighbors. Part II: Thrace, Skythia, and Taurike: sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, Pa. London 2017 p. 73, nr. 313 (reduced attic standard)  ❐

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cn coin 42521, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_42521 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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