cn coin 3158

Connected to Type

CN Type 19483 🔍

Mint

Samothrake 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 170-160 BC
Hellenistic Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of Athena, left, wearing Corinthian helmet.

Reverse

Legend

ΣΑΜΟΘ - ΠΟΛΥΞΕΝΟΥ

Design

Cybele enthroned left, wearing a polos, holding patera in outstretched right hand and pelleted sceptre in left arm; under throne, lion seated, left.

Monogram

(position: in exergue)

Persons

Magistrate

Polyxenos 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

tetradrachm 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

36 mm

Weight

14.84 g

Axis

6

Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de  ❐
Owner Inventory No.: 18207685
Provenience: Aus dem Fund von Babylon Nr. 1.

Findspot

Babylon, iq [iq] ❐

Hoard

IGCH 1774  ❐

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Zur Münzprägung von Samothrake: Ein Überblick, 1996 p. 273, pl. 1, pic. 7  ❐

Regling, Hellenistischer Münzschatz aus Babylon 38, 1928 p. 102-103, nr. 1, pl. 1, pic. 8  ❐

Thompson et al., An inventory of Greek coin hoards, New York 1973 nr. 1774  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Zur Münzprägung von Samothrake: Ein Überblick, 1996 p. 273, pl. 1, pic. 7 (170-160 BC.)   ❐

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; Polyxenidou)   ❐

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cn coin 3158, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_3158 [Last downloaded: 2023/09/22]

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