View source for 3454 - Mesembria (Alexander the Great) (tetradrachm Heracles/Zeus) over Athens (Athena/owl) (New York Sale, 20, Jan. 2009, 136)

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|Image overstriking coin=Mesembria 851 New York Sale.jpg
|Image overstruck variety=Athens Mikion Euryklei.jpg
|Sale=New York Sale, 20, 7 Jan. 2009, lot 136; Münzen und Medaillen, FPL 523, 1989, lot 6
|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, monogram. In field, monogram and Corinthian crested helmet.
|Mint=Mesembria
|Ancient region=Thrace
|Authority=Alexander III the Great (Argead king, 336-323 BC)
|Date from=110 BCE
|Date to=90 BCE
|Period=hellenistic
|Metal=Silver
|Weight=16.85
|Denomination=tetradrachm
|Standard=Attic
|Coin series reference=Price 1991, n° 1102; Karayotov 1994, O86-R (not recorded with this monogram)
|Coin series web reference=http://numismatics.org/pella/id/price.1102
|Overstruck reverse description=(visible: two eyes of the owl with the nose on the upper field and part of the olive wreath on the lower field).
|Overstruck mint=Athens
|Overstruck ancient region=Attica
|Overstruck date from=166 BCE
|Overstruck date to=70 BCE
|Overstruck period=Hellenistic
|Overstruck denomination=tetradrachm
|Overstruck standard=Attic
|Coin series reference overstruck=Thompson 1961
|Frequency of overstrikes=frequent
|Level of confidence=strong
|Remarks=overstruck on Athens [two eyes of the owl with the nose on the upper field and part of the olive wreath on the lower field of the reverse]).
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