cn coin 56712

Connected to Type

CN Type 10322 🔍

Mint

Odessos 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐

Date

125-70 BC

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

ΞΕ (position: on the left)

Persons

stated authority

Alexander der Große 🔍 ❐

Magistrate

Xeno... (2) 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

tetradrachm 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Weight

16.52 g

Axis

12

Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb  ❐
Owner Inventory No.: 1910,1104.54

Citation

Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 nr. 1200.a  ❐

de Callataÿ, L'histoire des guerres mithridatiques vue par les monnaies, Louvain-La-Neuve 1997 p. 87, nr. D4/R1.a, pl. 26  ❐

Literature

Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 nr. 1200  ❐

de Callataÿ, L'histoire des guerres mithridatiques vue par les monnaies, Louvain-La-Neuve 1997 p. 87-88, pl. 26  ❐

Web Reference: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_1910-1104-54  ❐

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cn coin 56712, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_56712 [Last downloaded: 2025/07/15]

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