View source for 3856 - Mesembria (Alexander the Great) (tetradrachm Heracles/Zeus) over Alexander (Lanz, May 2005, 112)

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|Image overstriking coin=SO 841 - Mesembria (Alexander the Great).jpg
|Image overstruck variety=Alexander the great tetradrachm basilews.jpg
|Sale=Lanz, May 2005, lot 112
|Obverse description=Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress.
|Reverse legend=BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ AΛΕΞANΔΡΟΥ
|Reverse legend language=Greek
|Reverse description=Zeus enthroned left, holding eagle and scepter. Under the throne, KO. In left field, Corinthian crested helmet and MA.
|Mint=Mesembria
|Ancient region=Thrace
|Authority=Alexander III the Great (Argead king, 336-323 BC)
|Date from=130 BCE
|Date to=90 BCE
|Period=hellenistic
|Metal=Silver
|Denomination=tetradrachm
|Standard=Attic
|Coin series reference=Price 1991, n° 1077 ; Karayotov 1994, (O49-R160)
|Coin series web reference=http://numismatics.org/pella/id/price.1077
|Overstruck obverse description=Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin
|Overstruck reverse legend=ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ/ AΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟY
|Overstruck reverse legend language=Greek
|Overstruck reverse description=Zeus Aëtophoros seated left
|Overstruck authority=Alexander III the Great (Argead king, 336-323 BC); Lysimachus (Macedonian officer, diadochus and king, c. 360-281 BC)
|Overstruck period=Hellenistic
|Overstruck denomination=tetradrachm
|Overstruck standard=Attic
|Frequency of overstrikes=frequent
|Remarks=overstruck on Alexander (more likely if looking at the other cases) or Lysimachus (visible letters: ΣΙΛ on the cheek of Herakles).
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