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cn coin 8157

Connected to Type
CN Type 10151 🔍
Mint
Mesembria 🔍
Region: Thrace
Typology
Date
250-175 BC
Hellenistic Period  🔍
Obverse
Design
Head of Heracles, right, wearing lion skin, knotted around neck.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ - ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ
Design
Zeus (Aëtophoros) enthroned left, wearing long garment, holding eagle, right, in outstretched right hand and sceptre in left hand.
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Symbol
corinthian helmet, right (position: on the left)
ΛΑ (position: Beneath throne)
Persons
Authority
Alexander der Große 🔍
Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍
Material
silver  🔍
Diameter
Max: 31 mm / Min: 30 mm
Owner
Jakunčikov, St. Petersburg, ru
Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.
Owner Inventory No.: S 16,43
Reproduction Owner
BBAW, Berlin [de]
Plaster Cast No: Jakuntschikow Mesembria S 16,43
Public Commentary
http://numismatics.org/pella/id/price.1000
Literature
Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Silver and Gold Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 1994 nr. 237, pl. 13, pic. 137  
Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 nr. 1029  
Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 nr. 1029  
Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Silver and Gold Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 1994 p. 88, nr. 167  
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cn coin 8157, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8157 [Last downloaded: 2024/12/05]
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