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cn coin 6796

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CN Type 10111 🔍

Coinage

Ruler: Alexander der Große (Hellenistic King)  

Mint
Mesembria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 250-175 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Heracles, right, wearing lion skin, knotted around neck.
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Reverse
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: not specified)
Symbol
corinthian helmet, right (position: on the left)
Persons

stated authority: Alexander der Große 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
28 mm
Weight
16.36 g
Axis
1
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18249941

Provenience: 1822 Knobelsdorff - Vorbesitzer Knobelsdorff

Public Commentary

http://numismatics.org/pella/id/price.989

Literature

Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 p. 182, nr. 989 ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Silver and Gold Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 1994 p. 83-84, nr. 18-50, pl. 5-8, pic. 18-50 ❐

Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 nr. 989 ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Silver and Gold Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 1994 p. 83, nr. 23 ❐

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cn coin 6796, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6796 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/23]

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