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cn coin 8157

Connected to Type

CN Type 10151 🔍

Mint
Mesembria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

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) ΛΑ (position: Beneath throne)
Persons

Authority: Alexander der Große 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 31 mm / Min: 30 mm
Owner

Jakunčikov, St. Petersburg, ru

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: S 16,43

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Jakuntschikow Mesembria S 16,43

Public Commentary

http://numismatics.org/pella/id/price.1000

Literature

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Silver and Gold Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 1994 nr. 237, pl. 13, pic. 137 ❐

Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 nr. 1029 ❐

Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 nr. 1029 ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Silver and Gold Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 1994 p. 88, nr. 167 ❐

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cn coin 8157, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8157 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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