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cn coin 6839

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CN Type 10147 🔍

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Mesembria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 250-175 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) ΟΙΝΙΑ (position: in exergue)
Persons

Magistrate: Oinia... 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
31 mm
Weight
16.57 g
Axis
1
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18249996

Provenience: 1906 Löbbecke - Vorbesitzer Löbbecke

Public Commentary

http://numismatics.org/pella/id/price.1025

Literature

Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 p. 184, nr. 1025 ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Silver and Gold Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 1994 p. 91, nr. 235-243, pl. 19-20, pic. 235-243 ❐

Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 nr. 1025 ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Silver and Gold Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 1994 p. 91, nr. 242 ❐

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cn coin 6839, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6839 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/23]

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