cn coin 18676

Connected to Type

CN Type 19482 🔍

Mint

Samothrake 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 168-150 BC
Hellenistic Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of Athena, left, wearing Corinthian helmet.
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Reverse

Legend

ΣΑΜΟ ΜΗΤΙΑΝΑ

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

Metiana... 🔍

Metrology

Denomination

tetradrachm 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

30 mm

Weight

16.94 g

Axis

8

Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de  ❐
Owner Inventory No.: 18247061
Provenience: 1887/6 - Veräusserer (an Museum) Lambros

Citation

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 284, nr. 1, pl. 7, pic. 65  ❐

Sallet, Die Erwerbungen des Koniglichen Münzcabinets vom 1. April 1888 bis 1. April 1889 17, 1890 p. 2-3, pl. 1, pic. 1  ❐

Literature

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. 314 (c. 166-150 BC; different magistrate's name.)   ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Zur Münzprägung von Samothrake: Ein Überblick, 1996 p. 273,276, pl. 1, pic. 6 (c. 280 BC)   ❐

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