cn coin 42393

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

Max: 13.5 mm / Min: 13.3 mm

Weight

2.00 g

Axis

3

Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb  ❐
Owner Inventory No.: G.367

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin [de] ❐
Plaster Cast No: cn-samothrace_0012

Findspot

Samothrake, gr [gr] ❐

Hoard

IGCH 696  ❐

Public Commentary

In London as obol.

Citation

Schwabacher, Ein Fund archaischer Münzen von Samothrake, 1938 p. 112, nr. 9x  ❐

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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