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cn coin 13686

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CN Type 12883 🔍

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Samothrake 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 168-80 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Athena, right, wearing Corinthian helmet.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΣΑ–ΜΟ – ΠΥΘΟΚ
Design
Turreted Cybele enthroned left, holding patera in outstretched right hand, sceptre in left.
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Persons

Magistrate: Pythok... 🔍

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 20.6 mm / Min: 20.1 mm
Weight
7.75 g
Owner

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

Provenience: Fonds général 1973

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: cn-samothrace_0144

Literature

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. 74, nr. 321 (Denomination B, 2nd to early 1st cent. BC.)  ❐

Schwabacher, Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. Copenhagen. The Royal Collection of Coins and Medals. Danish National Museum. Part 7: Thrace 2: Odessus - Sestos. Islands. Kings and Dynasts 7, Copenhagen 1943 nr. 998 ❐

Mannsperger and Balluff, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : Deutschland [1] Münzsammlung der Universität Tübingen H. 2 Taurische Chersones - Korkyra: Nr. 731 - 1542, 1982 nr. 934 (Lion under the throne.)  ❐

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cn coin 13686, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_13686 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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