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cn coin 8159

Connected to Type

CN Type 10247 🔍

Mint
Mesembria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

125-65 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Heracles, right, wearing lion skin, knotted around neck.
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Reverse
Legend
ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ ΜΕΣΑΜΒΡΙΑ
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
ΕΥΦΑ (position: on the left) corinthian helmet, right (position: on the left) ΜΕΣΑΜΒΡΙ (position: in exergue)
Persons

Authority: Alexander der Große 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
31 mm
Weight
16.10 g
Axis
12
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18250032

Provenience: 1898/382 - Veräusserer Walla

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Fund no 5 Berlin

Literature

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Silver and Gold Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 1994 p. 90, nr. 212-218, pl. 18/19, pic. 212-218 ❐

Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 nr. 1125 ❐

Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 nr. 1125 ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Silver and Gold Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 1994 p. 113, nr. 849 ❐

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cn coin 8159, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8159 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/25]

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