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    cn coin 53587

    Connected to Type
    CN Type 19401 🔍
    Mint
    Samothrake 🔍
    Region: Thrace
    Typology
    Date
    c. 500-450BC
    Archaic Period  🔍
    Obverse
    Design
    Forepart of a sphinx right, one paw raised.
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    Reverse
    Design
    Quadripartite incuse square with uneven surfaces.
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    Metrology
    Denomination
    Obol 🔍
    Material
    silver  🔍
    Diameter
    7 mm
    Weight
    0.55 g
    Owner
    commerce / im Handel, ,
    Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.
    Provenience: Nomos Auktion 26, lot 213. From the "Collection sans Pareille" of Ancient Greek Fractions, ex Münzen und Medaillen FPL 505, November-December 1987, 65
    Findspot
    Samothrake, gr [gr]
    Literature
    Schwabacher, Ein Fund archaischer Münzen von Samothrake, 1938 p. 111, 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. 72, nr. 307 (Obol.)   
    Cite this record:
    cn coin 53587, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_53587 [Last downloaded: 2024/11/09]
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