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Coin Type: Bronze AE19 of Alexandreia Troas. Mint and Date: Alexandreia Troas, 301-281 BCE. Size and Weight: 18mm x 19mm, 1.65g Obverse: Laureate head of Apollo right. Reverse: AΛEΞ Statue of Apollo Smintheus, robed, standing right, a quiver at his left shoulder, holding a phiale in his right hand and a bow and arrow in his left. At his feet, a large mouse moving right. Provenance: ancientcaesar (eBay), March 2010. Ref: GCV 4027; BMC 17, 9, 1; SNG von Aulock 7545. A. R. Bellinger, Troy - The Coins (1961), 81, A22. BW Ref: 002 048 156 |
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