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cn coin 18676

Connected to Type

CN Type 19482 🔍

Mint
Samothrake 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 168-150 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

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

Magistrate: Metiana... 🔍

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: reduced Attic
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
30 mm
Weight
16.94 g
Axis
8
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18247061

Provenience: 1887/6 - Veräusserer (an Museum) Lambros

Citation

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 284, nr. 1, pl. 7, pic. 65  ❐

Sallet, Die Erwerbungen des Koniglichen Münzcabinets vom 1. April 1888 bis 1. April 1889 17, 1890 p. 2-3, pl. 1, pic. 1  ❐

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. 73, nr. 314 (c. 166-150 BC; different magistrate's name.)  ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Zur Münzprägung von Samothrake: Ein Überblick, 1996 p. 273,276, pl. 1, pic. 6 (c. 280 BC)  ❐

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