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cn coin 6823

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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
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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