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cn coin 18675

Connected to Type
CN Type 19481 🔍
Mint
Samothrake 🔍
Region: Thrace
Typology
Date
c. 168-150 BC
Hellenistic Period  🔍
Obverse
Design
Head of Athena, right, wearing Corinthian helmet.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΣΑΜΟ - ΜΗΤΡΩΝΑ
Design
Cybele enthroned left, wearing a polos, holding patera in outstretched right hand and pelleted sceptre in left arm.
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Symbol
lion seated, left (position: Beneath throne)
Persons
Magistrate
Metronax 🔍
Metrology
Denomination
didrachm 🔍
Material
silver  🔍
Diameter
24 mm
Weight
8.13 g
Axis
12
Owner
Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de  
Owner Inventory No.: 18247057
Provenience: 1905/1407 - Vorbesitzer Fredrich
Findspot
Samothrake, gr [gr]
Literature
Schwabacher, Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. Copenhagen. The Royal Collection of Coins and Medals. Danish National Museum. Part 7: Thrace 2: Odessus - Sestos. Islands. Kings and Dynasts 7, Copenhagen 1943 nr. 992 (c. 280 BC.; Head of Athena to left.)   
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. 73, nr. 315 (c. 166-150 BC)   
Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 215, nr. 1  
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cn coin 18675, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_18675 [Last downloaded: 2025/01/25]
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