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Æ16
| Issuer | Alexandreia |
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| Year | 300 BC - 200 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | A horse depicted grazing or standing to the left, with head lowered toward the ground, rendered in a sturdy, compact style typical of Macedonian civic bronze issues. The animal's body is well-modelled in relief, showing the forelegs, hindquarters, and tail. The field is plain with no surrounding legend or exergual inscription, consistent with the anonymous civic coinage of Alexandreia in Macedon during the Hellenistic period. |
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| Mint | Alexandreia (Macedonia) |
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Alexandreia Troas, founded by Antigonus I around 310 BC and later refounded by Lysimachus, produced autonomous bronze issues throughout the third century as the city worked to establish civic identity during the fractious decades following Alexander's death. Control of the Troad changed hands repeatedly — Antigonus, Lysimachus, then the Seleucids — yet the city's mint maintained continuous output, which is why attribution of specific issues to narrow date ranges within this century remains contested among specialists.
SNG Copenhagen 77 anchors the type within the Danish national collection's Troas sequence, though die studies by later scholars have suggested the series is broader than Copenhagen's arrangement implies.