



cn coin 42393
- Connected to Type
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CN Type 19399 🔍
- Date
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c. 500-475 BC
Archaic Period 🔍
- Obverse
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- Design
- Sphinx seated left, raising right forepaw.
- Reverse
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- Design
- Lion's head, left, within dotted square border; within incuse square.
- Metrology
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- Diameter
- 13.5 mm / 13.3 mm
- Weight
- 2 g
- Axis
- 3
- Owner
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British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals,
London,
gb
❐
Owner Inventory No.: G.367
- Reproduction Owner
- BBAW,
Berlin
[de]
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Plaster Cast No: cn-samothrace_0012
- Findspot
- Samothrake, gr [gr] ❐
- Hoard
- IGCH 696 ❐
- Public Commentary
- In London as obol.
- Citation
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Schwabacher, Ein Fund archaischer Münzen von Samothrake, 1938 p. 112, nr. 9x ❐
- Literature
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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 ❐
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- cn coin 42393, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_42393 [Last downloaded: 2022/07/05]
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