cn type 10103

Edition

cn.mesembria.1_ed.29

Mint

Mesembria 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 250-175 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

(position: Beneath throne)

Symbol

corinthian helmet, right (position: on the left)

Persons

stated authority

Alexander der Große 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

tetradrachm 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

35 mm (1x)

Average Weight

16.53 g (1x)

Axes

12 (1x)

Citation

Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 nr. 991  ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Silver and Gold Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 1994 p. 86, nr. 94  ❐

editions

cn.mesembria.1_ed.29 🔍

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cn type 10103, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/cn.mesembria.1_ed.29 [Last downloaded: 2025/06/19]

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