cn type 1661
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cn type 1661

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Mesembria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

250-225 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Athena, right, wearing Corinthian helmet.
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Reverse
Legend
ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ
Design
Nike standing left, holding laurel wreath and stylis.
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Symbol
corinthian helmet (position: at the bottom left)
Metrology
Denomination
stater 🔍  
Material
gold 🔍  
Diameter
19 mm (1x)
Average Weight
8.43 g (1x)
Axes
5 (1x)
Citation

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Silver and Gold Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 1994 p. 114, nr. 2-5  ❐

Literature

Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 nr. 973, pl. 4, pic. 973 ❐

editions

cn.mesembria.1_ed.18  🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 1661, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/1661 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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