cn coin 43158

Connected to Type

CN Type 19786 🔍

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 ΠΟΛΥΞΕΝΙΔΗΣ

Design

Forpart of a ram, to right.
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Persons

Magistrate

Polyxenos 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Material

bronze  🔍 ❐

Diameter

Max: 16.5 mm / Min: 15.9 mm

Weight

2.87 g

Axis

11

Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb  ❐
Owner Inventory No.: 1841,B.2733

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin [de] ❐
Plaster Cast No: cn-samothrace_0347

Public Commentary

In London different reading of the magistrate's name.

Literature

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 215, nr. 7  ❐

Phardys, Νομισματικά Σαμοθράκης 1 p. 256, nr. Β  ❐

Bloesch, Griechische Münzen in Winterthur, Winterthur 1987 p. 120, nr. 1288  ❐

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cn coin 43158, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_43158 [Last downloaded: 2025/04/18]

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