cn coin 13670

Connected to Type

CN Type 19373 🔍

Mint

Samothrake 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 500-478 BC
Archaic Period  🔍

Obverse

Legend

Σ-Α

Design

Sphinx crouching left, raising right forepaw.

Reverse

Design

Quadripartite incuse square with uneven surfaces.

Metrology

Denomination

stater 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

20.3 mm / 20 mm

Weight

8.42 g

Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr  ❐
Owner Inventory No.: M 2609
Provenience: Fonds général

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin [de] ❐
Plaster Cast No: cn-samothrace_0001

Findspot

Samothrake, gr [gr] ❐

Hoard

IGCH 696  ❐

Citation

Schwabacher, Ein Fund archaischer Münzen von Samothrake, 1938 p. 110, nr. 1b ❐

Literature

Schwabacher, Ein Fund archaischer Münzen von Samothrake, 1938 p. 110, nr. 1, pl. 11, pic. 1 ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Zur Münzprägung von Samothrake: Ein Überblick, 1996 p. 271-273, pic. 1,1 ❐

Hoover and Ashton, Handbook of Coins of the Islands: Adriatic, Ionian, Thracian, Aegean and Carpathian Seas (Excluding Crete and Cyprus): Sixth to First Centuries BC, Lancaster 2010 p. 71, nr. 301 ❐

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cn coin 13670, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_13670 [Last downloaded: 2022/07/06]

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