cn coin 12740

Connected to Type

CN Type 10203 🔍

Mint
Mesembria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

175-125 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) ΜΑ (position: on the left)
Persons

stated authority: Alexander der Große 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Material
Weight
16.06 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 1966.453

Provenience: Jean et Marie Delepierre 810

Literature

Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 nr. 1081

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Silver and Gold Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 1994 p. 95, nr. 337

Cite this record:

cn coin 12740, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_12740 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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