cn coin 42363

Connected to Type

CN Type 19399 🔍

Mint

Samothrake 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 500-475 BC
Archaic Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Sphinx seated left, raising right forepaw.
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Reverse

Design

Lion's head, left, within dotted square border; within incuse square.
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Metrology

Denomination

hemidrachm (triobol) 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

13.2 mm

Weight

2.30 g

Axis

9

Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb  ❐
Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.
Owner Inventory No.: 1937,0606.35

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin [de] ❐
Plaster Cast No: cn-samothrake_0010

Public Commentary

In London as obol.

Literature

Schwabacher, Ein Fund archaischer Münzen von Samothrake, 1938 nr. 9  ❐

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. 304 (Triobol/hemidrachm.)   ❐

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cn coin 42363, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_42363 [Last downloaded: 2025/07/14]

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