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cn coin 18688

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CN Type 19436 🔍

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Samothrake 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 168-150 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Athena, right, wearing Corinthian helmet.
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Reverse
Design
Cybele enthroned left, wearing a polos, holding patera in outstretched right hand and pelleted sceptre in left arm.
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Persons

Magistrate: Theondas 🔍  

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
17 mm
Weight
6.17 g
Axis
2
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18247305

Provenience: 1875 Prokesch-Osten - Vorbesitzer Prokesch von Osten

Citation

Prokesch-Osten, Autonome thrakische Münzen der Sammlung Prokesch-Osten 4, 1872 p. 217, nr. 5  ❐

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

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. 993-1001 (c. 280 BC, different legend.)  ❐

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