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cn coin 38487

Connected to Type

CN Type 10165 🔍

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) ΔΑ (position: on the left) Ο (position: Beneath throne)
Persons

stated authority: Alexander der Große 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
30 mm
Weight
16.62 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Numismatik Naumann (formerly Gitbud & Naumann) > Auction 49, 8. Januar 2017, Lot 116.

Literature

Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 nr. 1043 ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Silver and Gold Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 1994 p. 97, nr. 396 ❐

Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 nr. 1043 ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Silver and Gold Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 1994 p. 97, nr. 396 ❐

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cn coin 38487, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_38487 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/25]

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