cn coin 12646

Connected to Type

CN Type 10102 🔍

Ruler  ❐

Ruler: Alexander der Große (Hellenistic King) ❐

Mint

Mesembria 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

250-175 BC
Hellenistic Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of bearded Heracles, right, wearing lion skin.
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Reverse

Legend

ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ

Design

Zeus (Aëtophoros) enthroned left, holding eagle and sceptre.
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Monogram

(position: Beneath throne)

Symbol

corinthian helmet, right (position: on the left)

Persons

Sitter

Alexander der Große 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

tetradrachm 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Weight

16.78 g

Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr  ❐
Owner Inventory No.: R 4066
Provenience: Henri Seyrig

Findspot

Ayazini, TR [TR] ❐

Hoard

IGCH 1413  ❐

Literature

Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 nr. 980  ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Silver and Gold Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 1994 p. 86, nr. 95  ❐

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cn coin 12646, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_12646 [Last downloaded: 2025/01/26]

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