cn coin 42453

Connected to Type

CN Type 13093 🔍

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 ΠΟΡΘΑΩ

Design

Head of ram, left.
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Symbol

caduceus (position: on the left)

Persons

Magistrate

Porthaon 🔍

Metrology

Material

bronze  🔍 ❐

Diameter

Max: 12.9 mm / Min: 12.7 mm

Weight

1.39 g

Axis

3

Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb  ❐
Owner Inventory No.: 1906,1007.7

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin [de] ❐
Plaster Cast No: cn-samothrace_0310

Literature

Imhoof-Blumer, Zur griechischen und römischen Münzkunde, Genf 1908 p. 257, nr. 5  ❐

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. 75, nr. 324 (Denomination D, 2nd-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. 1003-1006 (c. 280 BC, variant legend.)   ❐

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cn coin 42453, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_42453 [Last downloaded: 2025/04/26]

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