cn coin 10879

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 🔍

Weight

0.43 g

Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Provenience: Chandon de Briailles 569

Public Commentary

In Paris as hemiobol.

Citation

Gérin, Sphings perdues et retrouvées: cinq monnaies de Samothrace dans la Collection Chandon de Briailles, Αθήνα 2009 p. 149, nr. A5c, pl. 1 ❐

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.) ❐

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cn coin 10879, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_10879 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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