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Tetradrachm In the name of Alexander III
| Issuer | Mesembria (Thrace) |
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| Year | 250 BC - 175 BC |
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| Currency | Attic drachm |
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| Reverse description | Zeus Aëtophoros enthroned left on a backless stool-throne, his body draped from the waist down, holding an eagle on his outstretched right hand and a long sceptre in his raised left hand. In the left field above the knee, a crested Corinthian helmet facing right serves as a mint control symbol. The legend BAΣIΛEΩΣ AΛEΞANΔΡOΥ runs to the right and left of the throne, and the letters ΔΙ appear in the exergue as an additional control mark. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Mesembria — a Greek colonial city on the Black Sea coast of Thrace, modern Nesebar in Bulgaria — struck posthumous Alexander tetradrachms well into the second century BC, long after the Macedonian kingdom itself had fractured. These civic issues were not royal propaganda but local monetary policy: the city needed a widely accepted trade currency for Black Sea commerce, and nothing circulated more fluidly than Alexander's types. Price 1000-1001 places this issue among the later Mesembrian output, distinguished by specific monogram placement and control marks that identify the local magistrates responsible for the issue.