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cn coin 40642

Connected to Type

CN Type 12946 🔍

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 ΜΕΝΕ
Design
Head of ram, left.
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Symbol
caduceus (position: on the left)
Persons

Magistrate: Mene... 🔍

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
11.5 mm
Weight
1.17 g
Axis
3
Owner

Tekirdağ, Arkeoloji ve Etnografya Müzesi, Tekirdağ, tr

Owner Inventory No.: Y-281

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Citation

Arslan et al., Antike Münzen von Thrakien und Moesien aus öffentlichen und privaten Sammlungen der Türkei, Berlin-Boston 2021 p. 108, nr. 868, pl. L  ❐

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. 75, nr. 324 (Denomination D, 2nd-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. 1005 ❐

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cn coin 40642, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_40642 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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