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cn coin 34186

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CN Type 10218 🔍

Mint
Mesembria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

125-65 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: on the left) Monogram reverse (position: Beneath throne)
Symbol
corinthian helmet, right (position: on the left)
Persons

stated authority: Alexander der Große 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Material
Diameter
33 mm
Weight
16.21 g
Axis
12
Owner

American Numismatic Society, New York, us

Owner Inventory No.: 1944.100.35788

Literature

Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 nr. 1096

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Silver and Gold Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 1994 p. 108, nr. 705

Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 nr. 1096

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Silver and Gold Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 1994 p. 108, nr. 705

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cn coin 34186, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_34186 [Last downloaded: 2026/06/07]

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