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cn coin 6858

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Kallatis 🔍  

Region: Moesia inferior  

Date

c. 250-225 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Heracles, right, wearing lion skin, knotted around neck.
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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, monogram.
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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: not specified) Monogram reverse (position: not specified) Monogram reverse (position: not specified)
Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 30 mm / Min: 26 mm
Weight
12.91 g
Axis
12
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18250040

Provenience: 1928/367

Findspot

Babylon, iq [iq] ❐

Hoard

IGCH 1774 ❐

Public Commentary

http://numismatics.org/pella/id/price.944

Citation

Regling, Hellenistischer Münzschatz aus Babylon 38, 1928 p. 105-106, nr. 13  ❐

Literature

Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 p. 179, nr. 944 ❐

Thompson et al., An inventory of Greek coin hoards, New York 1973 nr. 1774 ❐

Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 nr. 944 ❐

Web Reference: https://ikmk.smb.museum/object?id=18250040 ❐

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cn coin 6858, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6858 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/25]

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