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cn coin 65558

Connected to Type

CN Type 10223 🔍

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
corinthian helmet, right (position: on the left) ΧΟ (position: on the left) ΗΡΑ (position: Beneath throne)
Persons

stated authority: Alexander der Große 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
34 mm
Weight
16.31 g
Owner

Landesmuseum Württemberg. Münzkabinett Stuttgart, Stuttgart, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: MK SU 87

Provenience: Slg. Unger

Literature

Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 nr. 1101 ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Silver and Gold Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 1994 p. 92, nr. 280 ❐

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cn coin 65558, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_65558 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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