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cn coin 3158

Connected to Type

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; under throne, lion seated, left.
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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: in exergue)
Persons

Magistrate: Polyxenos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: reduced Attic
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
36 mm
Weight
14.84 g
Axis
6
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18207685

Provenience: Aus dem Fund von Babylon Nr. 1.

Findspot

Babylon, iq [iq] ❐

Hoard

IGCH 1774 ❐

Citation

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

Regling, Hellenistischer Münzschatz aus Babylon 38, 1928 p. 102-103, nr. 1, pl. 1, pic. 8  ❐

Thompson et al., An inventory of Greek coin hoards, New York 1973 nr. 1774  ❐

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 3158, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_3158 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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