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cn coin 56712

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CN Type 10322 🔍

Mint
Odessos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

125-70 BC

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
ΞΕ (position: on the left)
Persons

stated authority: Alexander der Große 🔍  

Magistrate: Xeno... (2) 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
16.52 g
Axis
12
Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 1910,1104.54

Citation

Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 nr. 1200.a  ❐

de Callataÿ, L'histoire des guerres mithridatiques vue par les monnaies, Louvain-La-Neuve 1997 p. 87, nr. D4/R1.a, pl. 26  ❐

Literature

Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 nr. 1200 ❐

de Callataÿ, L'histoire des guerres mithridatiques vue par les monnaies, Louvain-La-Neuve 1997 p. 87-88, pl. 26 ❐

Web Reference: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_1910-1104-54 ❐

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cn coin 56712, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_56712 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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