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cn type 10184

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Mesembria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 175-125 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of bearded Heracles, right, wearing lion skin.
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Reverse
Legend
ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ
Design
Zeus (Aëtophoros) enthroned left, holding eagle and sceptre.
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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: Beneath throne)
Symbol
corinthian helmet, right (position: on the left) ΔΑ (position: on the left)
Persons

stated authority: Alexander der Große 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Material
Diameter
30 mm (1x)
Average Weight
16.18 g (4x)
Axes
11 (1x)
Citation

Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 nr. 1062 

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Silver and Gold Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 1994 p. 100, nr. 504 

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Silver and Gold Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 1994 p. 101, nr. 511 

editions

cn.mesembria.1_ed.111  🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 10184, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/10184 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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