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cn coin 50150

Connected to Type

CN Type 10241 🔍

Mint
Mesembria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 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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Symbol
ΒΑΚ (position: on the left) corinthian helmet, right (position: on the left) ΘΕΣ (position: Beneath throne)
Persons

stated authority: Alexander der Große 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
16.12 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Provenience: Künker 243 (21.11.2013) 4597.

Literature

Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 nr. 1119 ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Silver and Gold Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 1994 p. 109, nr. 733 ❐

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cn coin 50150, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_50150 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/23]

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