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cn coin 13336

Connected to Type

CN Type 19396 🔍

Mint
Samothrake 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 500-475 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Sphinx crouching left, raising right forepaw.
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Reverse
Design
Incuse square divided into four triangles with uneven surfaces.
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Metrology
Denomination
Trihemiobol (1 1/2 obol) 🔍  
Standard: Euboic /Attic
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
0.84 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 1966.453

Provenience: Jean et Marie Delepierre 816

Public Commentary

In Paris as trihemiobol.

Citation

Nicolet, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. Bibliothèque nationale, Cabinet des médailles, Collection Jean et Marie Delepierre, Paris 1983 nr. 816  ❐

Literature

Schwabacher, Ein Fund archaischer Münzen von Samothrake, 1938 p. 111, nr. 4 ❐

Schwabacher, Ein Fund archaischer Münzen von Samothrake, 1938 p. 110, nr. 6 ❐

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. 71-72, nr. 306 (Another denomination.)  ❐

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cn coin 13336, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_13336 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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