View source for 3817 - Mesembria (Alexander the Great) (tetradrachm Heracles/Zeus) over Thasos (Dionysus/Heracles) (CNG Webshop, Apr. 2017, 727792)

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|Image overstriking coin=SO 833 - Mesembria (Alexander the Great) over Thasos.png
|Image overstruck variety=Thasos tetradrachm.jpg
|Sale=Classical Numismatic Group Webshop April 2017, lot 727792.
|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=175 BCE
|Date to=125 BCE
|Period=hellenistic
|Metal=Silver
|Weight=16.42
|Denomination=tetradrachm
|Standard=Attic
|Coin series reference=Price 1991, n° 1047 ; Karayotov 1994, p. 125, 132-139
|Coin series web reference=http://numismatics.org/pella/id/price.1047
|Overstruck obverse description=Head of Dionysos right, wearing ivy wreath (visible: slight traces).
|Overstruck reverse legend=HPAKΛEOYΣ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ 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
|Overstruck standard=Attic
|Remarks=This coin is from a small hoard, of which many were overstruck on Thasos tetradrachms. This particular example shows faint traces of the lettering on the reverse below the throne,and within the letters of the right legend. There are also traces below the obverse portrait of Herakles. In addition, this reverse die was die-linked to another specimen that exhibited more obvious traces of an overstrike.
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