View source for 3095 - Mesembria (Alexander the Great) (tetradrachm Heracles/Zeus) over Thasos (Dionysus/Heracles) (Kurpfälzische Münzhandlung, 14, May-June 1978, 12)

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|Image overstriking coin=SO 830 - Mesembria (Alexander the Great) .png
|Image overstruck variety=Thasos tetradrachm.jpg
|Sale=Kurpfälzische Münzhandlung, Mannheim 14 (31/05-02/06/1978), lot 12.
|Obverse description=Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress.
|Reverse legend=BAΣΙΛΕΩ AΛΕΞΛΙΛΔ
|Reverse legend language=Greek
|Reverse description=Zeus enthroned left, holding eagle and scepter. Under the throne, monogram (ΠΥ). In left field, Corinthian crested helmet and ΔΑ.
|Mint=Mesembria
|Ancient region=Thrace
|Authority=Alexander III the Great (Argead king, 336-323 BC)
|Date from=90 BCE
|Date to=70 BCE
|Period=hellenistic
|Metal=Silver
|Diameter=36
|Denomination=tetradrachm
|Standard=Attic
|Coin series reference=Callataÿ 1987b, p. 239, R7 ; Price 1991, n° 1047 ; Karayotov 1994, p. 93, n° 294 (O47-R133, monogram 43) ; Callataÿ 1994b, p. 336, D31/R6b. ; Callataÿ 1997a, p. 103 ; MacDonald 2009, p. 213, n° 12; Callataÿ 2021a, p. 277, n° 26
|Coin series web reference=http://numismatics.org/pella/id/price.1047
|Overstruck obverse description=Head of Dionysos right, wearing ivy wreath (visible: profile on the right field).
|Overstruck reverse legend=(HP)AKΛEO(YΣ ΣΩ)ΤΗΡΟΣ (ΘΑΣΙΩΝ)
|Overstruck reverse legend language=Greek
|Overstruck reverse description=Herakles standing, nude, holding lion skin and club. In field, letter or monogram.
|Overstruck mint=Thasos
|Overstruck ancient region=Thrace
|Overstruck denomination=tetradrachm
|Frequency of overstrikes=frequent
|Level of confidence=sure
}}