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cn coin 6810

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CN Type 10241 🔍

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Mesembria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 125-65 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Heracles, right, wearing lion skin.
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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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Symbol
ΒΑΚ (position: on the left) corinthian helmet, right (position: on the left) ΘΕΣ (position: Beneath throne)
Persons

stated authority: Alexander der Große 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Material
Diameter
29 mm
Weight
15.52 g
Axis
1
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de

Owner Inventory No.: 18249956

Provenience: 1875 Prokesch-Osten - Vorbesitzer Prokesch von Osten

Public Commentary

http://numismatics.org/pella/id/price.1119

Citation

Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 p. 190, nr. 1119 

Literature

Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 nr. 1119

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Silver and Gold Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 1994 p. 109, nr. 733

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cn coin 6810, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6810 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/23]

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