cn coin 45926

Connected to Type

CN Type 20091 🔍

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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Symbol

caduceus (position: on the left)

Persons

stated authority: Alexander der Große 🔍

Metrology

Denomination

tetradrachm 🔍
Standard: Attic

Material

silver 🔍

Weight

16.92 g

Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Provenience: Baldwin's Auctions Ltd | Dmitry Markov Coins & Medals | M&M Numismatics Ltd > The New York Sale V, Lot number: 94, Auction date: 16 January 2003

Literature

Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 p. 153, nr. 662-663 (Without monogram here.) ❐

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cn coin 45926, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_45926 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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