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cn coin 6807

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CN Type 10151 🔍

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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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Overstrike
yes
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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Symbol
corinthian helmet, right (position: on the left) ΛΑ (position: Beneath throne)
Overstrike
yes
Persons

Authority: Alexander der Große 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Material
Diameter
33 mm
Weight
16.08 g
Axis
12
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de

Owner Inventory No.: 18249952

Provenience: 1906 Löbbecke - Vorbesitzer Löbbecke

Public Commentary

http://numismatics.org/pella/id/price.1029

Literature

Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 p. 84, nr. 1029

Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 nr. 1029

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Silver and Gold Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 1994 p. 88, nr. 167

Cite this record:

cn coin 6807, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6807 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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