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cn coin 43714

Connected to Type
CN Type 19766 🔍
Mint
Samothrake 🔍
Region: Thrace
Typology
Date
c. 171-168 BC
Hellenistic Period  🔍
Obverse
Design
Head of Helios facing, slightly right.
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Reverse
Legend
ΓΟΡΓΟΣ ΡΟ
Design
Rose, bud to right.
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Symbol
torch (position: on the left)
Persons
Magistrate
Gorgos 🔍
Metrology
Denomination
drachm 🔍
Material
silver  🔍
Diameter
15 mm
Weight
2.27 g
Axis
12
Owner
Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de  
Owner Inventory No.: 18279824
Provenience: 1900 Imhoof-Blumer
Citation
Ashton, Clubs, thunderbolts, torches, stars and caducei. More pseudo-Rhodian drachms from mainland Greece and the islands, 2002 p. 74, nr. 35, pl. 17 
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. 319 (reduced rhodian standard)   
Ashton, Clubs, thunderbolts, torches, stars and caducei. More pseudo-Rhodian drachms from mainland Greece and the islands, 2002 p. 73-74, nr. 1-37, pl. 16-17  
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cn coin 43714, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_43714 [Last downloaded: 2025/04/18]
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