cn coin 65529

Connected to Type

CN Type 10126 🔍

Mint

Mesembria 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 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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Symbol

corinthian helmet, right (position: on the left)
ΔΙΟΣΚΟΥΡΙΔΑ (position: in exergue)

Persons

stated authority

Alexander der Große 🔍 ❐

Magistrate

Dioskouridas 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

tetradrachm 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

32 mm

Weight

16.76 g

Axis

11

Owner

Landesmuseum Württemberg. Münzkabinett Stuttgart, Stuttgart, de  ❐
Owner Inventory No.: MK 2001-60

Literature

Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 nr. 1004  ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Silver and Gold Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 1994 p. 90, nr. 222  ❐

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cn coin 65529, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_65529 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/16]

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