cn coin 42408

Connected to Type

CN Type 19466 🔍

Mint

Samothrake 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 168-150 BC
Hellenistic Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of Athena, right, wearing Corinthian helmet.
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Reverse

Legend

ΣΑΜΟ ΜΗΤΡΩ(Ν/ΝΑ)

Design

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

lion seated, left (position: )

Persons

Magistrate

Metronax 🔍

Metrology

Material

bronze  🔍 ❐

Diameter

Max: 21.3 mm / Min: 20.2 mm

Weight

5.40 g

Owner

Die Göttinger Universitäts-Münzsammlung, Göttingen, de  ❐
Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.
Owner Inventory No.: UK9

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin [de] ❐
Plaster Cast No: cn-samothrace_0189

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. 996 (c. 280 BC)   ❐

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cn coin 42408, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_42408 [Last downloaded: 2025/05/23]

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