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cn coin 45927

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CN Type 20091 🔍

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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: Heritage World Coin Auctions > CCE Signature Sale 3064, Lot number: 32031, Auction date: 20 April 2018

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 45927, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_45927 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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