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cn coin 6820

Connected to Type

CN Type 10207 🔍

Mint
Mesembria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 125-65 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: Beneath throne)
Symbol
ΠΡΟ (position: on the left) corinthian helmet, right (position: on the left)
Persons

stated authority: Alexander der Große 🔍  

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

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18249968

Provenience: Gansauge 1873

Literature

Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 p. 188, nr. 1085 ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Silver and Gold Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 1994 p. 91-92, nr. 249-273, pl. 20-21, pic. 249-273 ❐

Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 nr. 1085 ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Silver and Gold Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 1994 p. 92, nr. 264 ❐

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cn coin 6820, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6820 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/23]

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