325 BCE - 320 BCE | ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ
Overstriking coin
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Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:
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Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin
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ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:
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ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ (Greek) Bow-in-bowcase and club, grain ear below
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Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.:
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Curium
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Ancient regionAncient region.
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Cyprus
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Modern countryModern country: Greece
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AuthorityIdentifies the issuing power. The authority can be "pretended" when the name or the portrait of X is on the coin but he/she was not the issuing power. It can also be "uncertain" when there is no mention of X on the coin but he/she was the issuing power according to the historical sources:
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Chronology
| FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 325 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 320 BCE
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Hellenistic 323-30 BC  periodTime period of the numismatic object.
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Physical description
| MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: Bronze
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WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 4.004 g <br />4,000 mg <br />
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References
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:
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Head of Apollo facing slightly to left
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ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:
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Horse standing to right, with suckling foal standing to left below
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Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. ᵖ:
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Curium
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Ancient regionAncient region. ᵖ
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Cyprus
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Modern countryModern country: Greece
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AuthorityIdentifies the authority in whose name (explicitly or implicitly) a numismatic object was issued. ᵖ:
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Chronology
| FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 400 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 350 BCE
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Classical 480-323 BC periodTime period of the numismatic object.
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Physical description
References
References
- ^ Destrooper-Georgiades, A. (2013), "Monnaies chypriotes surfrappées des cités-royaumes," in Demetrios Michaelides (ed.), Epigraphy, numismatics, prosopography and History of Ancient Cyprus. Papers in honour of Ino Nicolaou, Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology and Literature PB 179, Uppsala, p. 9-40.
- ^ Hill, George Francis (1904), A Catalogue of the Greek coins in the British Museum, vol XX : Cyprus, London, cxliv, 119 p., xxvi pl.,
- ^ Tziambazis, Elias (2002), A catalogue of the coins of Cyprus: from 560 B.C. to 1571 A.D., Larnaca, 89 p.
