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cn coin 12653

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CN Type 10127 🔍

Coinage
 

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
Monogram reverse (position: Beneath throne)
Symbol
corinthian helmet, right (position: on the left) ΔΙΟΣΚ (position: in exergue)
Persons

Sitter: Alexander der Große 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
16.84 g
Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Owner Inventory No.: R 4057

Provenience: Henri Seyrig

Literature

Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 nr. 1005 ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Silver and Gold Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 1994 p. 90, nr. 204 ❐

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cn coin 12653, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_12653 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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