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cn coin 42404

Connected to Type
CN Type 12883 🔍
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 ΠΥΘΟΚ
Design
Turreted Cybele enthroned left, holding patera in outstretched right hand, sceptre in left.
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Persons
Magistrate
Pythok... 🔍
Metrology
Material
bronze  🔍
Diameter
18.1 mm
Weight
5.83 g
Axis
8
Owner
British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb  
Owner Inventory No.: G.2684
Reproduction Owner
BBAW, Berlin [de]
Plaster Cast No: cn-samothrace_0149
Citation
Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 215, nr. 3 
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. 74, nr. 321 (Denomination B, 2nd to 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. 998  
Mannsperger and Balluff, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : Deutschland [1] Münzsammlung der Universität Tübingen H. 2 Taurische Chersones - Korkyra: Nr. 731 - 1542, 1982 nr. 934 (Lion under the throne.)   
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cn coin 42404, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_42404 [Last downloaded: 2025/07/20]
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