cn coin 42406

Connected to Type

CN Type 13157 🔍

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 ΤΕΙΣΙΚ

Design

Cybele enthroned left, wearing a polos, holding patera in outstretched right hand and pelleted sceptre in left arm.
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Persons

Magistrate

Teisik... 🔍

Metrology

Material

bronze  🔍 ❐

Diameter

Max: 19 mm / Min: 18.7 mm

Weight

5.14 g

Axis

3

Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb  ❐
Owner Inventory No.: 1885,1001.4

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin [de] ❐
Plaster Cast No: cn-samothrace_0171

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. 1000  ❐

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cn coin 42406, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_42406 [Last downloaded: 2025/04/18]

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