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cn coin 18703

Connected to Type

CN Type 13167 🔍

Mint
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
ΣΑΜΟ ΣΟΛΩΝ
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: Solon 🔍

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
18 mm
Weight
5.36 g
Axis
12
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18247506

Provenience: 1900 Imhoof-Blumer - Vorbesitzer Imhoof-Blumer

Literature

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 215, nr. 5 ❐

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)  ❐

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cn coin 18703, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_18703 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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