cn coin 40642

Connected to Type

CN Type 12946 🔍

Mint

Samothrake 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 168-80 BC
Hellenistic Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of Athena, right, wearing Corinthian helmet.
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Reverse

Legend

ΣΑΜΟ ΜΕΝΕ

Design

Head of ram, left.
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Symbol

caduceus (position: on the left)

Persons

Magistrate

Mene... 🔍

Metrology

Material

bronze  🔍 ❐

Diameter

11.5 mm

Weight

1.17 g

Axis

3

Owner

Tekirdağ, Arkeoloji ve Etnografya Müzesi, Tekirdağ, tr
Owner Inventory No.: Y-281

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin [de] ❐

Citation

Arslan et al., Antike Münzen von Thrakien und Moesien aus öffentlichen und privaten Sammlungen der Türkei, Berlin-Boston 2021 p. 108, nr. 868, pl. L  ❐

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. 75, nr. 324 (Denomination D, 2nd-early 1st cent. BC)   ❐

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. 1005  ❐

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