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cn coin 6823

Connected to Type

CN Type 10186 🔍

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Mesembria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 175-125 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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Symbol
corinthian helmet, right (position: on the left) ΔΑ (position: on the left) ΚΟ (position: Beneath throne)
Persons

stated authority: Alexander der Große 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
31 mm
Weight
15.71 g
Axis
11
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18249972

Provenience: 1969/18 - Vorbesitzer Borchard

Public Commentary

http://numismatics.org/pella/id/price.1064

Literature

Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 p. 187, nr. 1064 ❐

Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 nr. 1064 ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Silver and Gold Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 1994 p. 100, nr. 493 ❐

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cn coin 6823, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6823 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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