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cn coin 6059

Connected to Type

CN Type 10181 🔍

Mint
Mesembria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 175-125 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Mes_S233_O69 🔍
Design
Head of Alexander the Great, right, wearing lion skin bound at bottom.
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Reverse
Die
Mes_S233_R227 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ - ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ
Design
Zeus (Aëtophoros) enthroned left, wearing long garment, holding eagle, right, in outstretched right hand and sceptre in left hand.
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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: Beneath throne)
Symbol
corinthian helmet, right (position: on the left) ΔΑ (position: on the left)
Persons

stated authority: Alexander der Große 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Euboic /Attic
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
29.6 mm
Weight
16.47 g
Axis
12
Owner

Coll. H.I., , de

Public Commentary

http://numismatics.org/pella/id/price.1059

Literature

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Silver and Gold Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 1994 p. 48.102, nr. 559, pl. XXXIV, pic. 559 ❐

Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 nr. 1059 ❐

Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 nr. 1059 ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Silver and Gold Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 1994 p. 102, nr. 559 ❐

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cn coin 6059, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6059 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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