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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 🔍  
Average Weight
17.18 g (3x)
Literature

Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 p. 153, nr. 662-663 (Without monogram here.)  ❐

editions

cn.samothrace.1_ed.15  🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 20091, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/20091 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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