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cn type 21049

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Alexandria Troas 🔍  

Region: Troas  

Date

c. 261-246 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Laureate head of Apollo, right.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΑΛΕΞΑΝ
Design
Horse grazing left.
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Symbol
thunderbolt (position: in exergue) club (position: below)
Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
17 mm (1x)
Average Weight
4.49 g (1x)
Axes
12 (1x)
Public Commentary

For the chronology, cf. A. Meadows, The earliest coinage of Alexandria Troas, Numismatic Chronicle 164, 2004, 59.

Literature

Meadows, The earliest coinage of Alexandria Troas 164, 2004 p. 59 ❐

Wroth, A catalogue of the Greek coins in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Greek coins of Troas, Aeolis and Lesbos, Bologna 1964 p. 10, nr. 15 ❐

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cn type 21049, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/21049 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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