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cn coin 6856

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Kallatis 🔍  

Region: Moesia inferior  

Date

250-225 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Heracles, right, wearing lion skin.
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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, ear of corn to right.
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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: on the left) Monogram reverse (position: on the left)
Symbol
corn-ear (position: in exergue)
Persons

stated authority: Alexander der Große 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
29 mm
Weight
16.05 g
Axis
12
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18250036

Provenience: 1875 Prokesch-Osten - Vorbesitzer Prokesch von Osten

Public Commentary

http://numismatics.org/pella/id/price.922

Citation

Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 p. 178, nr. 922  (This piece, but wrongfully described withe corn to left.)  ❐

Literature

Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 nr. 922 (Difference to Price 923 only the arrangement of the monogramms.)  ❐

Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 nr. 923 (Difference to Price 922 only the arrangement of the monogramms.)  ❐

Web Reference: https://ikmk.smb.museum/object?id=18250036 ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 6856, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6856 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/25]

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