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cn coin 13671

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CN Type 19483 🔍

Mint
Samothrake 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 170-160 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Athena, left, wearing Corinthian helmet.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΣΑΜΟΘ - ΠΟΛΥΞΕΝΟΥ
Design
Cybele enthroned left, wearing a polos, holding patera in outstretched right hand and pelleted sceptre in left arm.
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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: in exergue)
Symbol
lion seated, left (position: Beneath throne)
Persons

Magistrate: Polyxenos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: reduced Attic
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
16.90 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 1988.123

Provenience: Fonds général; Ex vente Leu 45, 26 mai 1988 n° 88

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Zur Münzprägung von Samothrake: Ein Überblick, 1996 p. 273, pl. 1, pic. 7 (170-160 BC.)  ❐

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. 73, nr. 314 (c. 166-150 BC; Polyxenidou)  ❐

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cn coin 13671, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_13671 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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