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cn coin 6810

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CN Type 10241 🔍

Mint
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
silver 🔍  
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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