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cn type 21071

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Alexandria Troas 🔍  

Region: Troas  

Date

c. 281-261 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Laureate head of Apollo, right.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΑΛΕΞΑΝ/ΔΡΕΩΝ
Design
Horse grazing right.
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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: below)
Symbol
grain of barley (position: below) palm branch (position: on the right)
Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
21 mm (1x)
Average Weight
7.97 g (2x)
Axes
12 (1x)
Public Commentary

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

Citation

Bellinger, Troy: the coins, Princeton 1961 p. 83, nr. A28.e  (281-261 BC)  ❐

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cn type 21071, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/21071 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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