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cn type 10204

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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) ΜΑ (position: on the left)
Persons

stated authority: Alexander der Große 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 34 mm / Min: 32 mm
Average Weight
16.34 g (5x)
Axes
12 (3x)
Citation

Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 nr. 1082  ❐

editions

cn.mesembria.1_ed.131  🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 10204, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/10204 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/23]

License:

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