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cn type 10002

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Samothrake 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

200-200 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: Beneath throne)
Symbol
caduceus (position: on the left)
Persons

stated authority: Alexander der Große 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Citation

Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 nr. 662  ❐

editions

cn.samothrace.1_ed.16  🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 10002, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/10002 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

License:

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