cn coin 10880

Connected to Type

CN Type 19399 🔍

Mint

Samothrake 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

c. 500-475 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Sphinx seated left, raising right forepaw.
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Reverse

Design

Lion's head, left, within dotted square border; within incuse square.
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Metrology

Denomination

hemidrachm (triobol) 🔍
Standard: Euboic /Attic

Material

silver 🔍

Weight

2.22 g

Owner

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

Provenience: Chandon de Briailles 565

Public Commentary

In Paris as diobol.

Citation

Gérin, Sphings perdues et retrouvées: cinq monnaies de Samothrace dans la Collection Chandon de Briailles, Αθήνα 2009 p. 149, nr. B9e, pl. 1 ❐

Literature

Schwabacher, Ein Fund archaischer Münzen von Samothrake, 1938 nr. 9 ❐

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. 71, nr. 304 (Triobol/hemidrachm.) ❐

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cn coin 10880, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_10880 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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