cn coin 42285

Connected to Type

CN Type 19571 🔍

Mint

Samothrake 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

c. 500-475 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Sphinx crouching left, raising right forepaw.
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Reverse

Design

Bearded male head (Cabeirus?), left, wearing pilos helmet, within dotted square border; within incuse square.
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Metrology

Denomination

Diobol 🔍
Standard: Euboic /Attic

Material

silver 🔍

Weight

1.24 g

Axis

Owner

American Numismatic Society, New York, us ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 1950.191.15

Hoard

IGCH 696 ❐

Citation

Schwabacher, Ein Fund archaischer Münzen von Samothrake, 1938 p. 111, nr. 3, pl. 11 ❐

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. 71, nr. 305 ❐

Schwabacher, Ein Fund archaischer Münzen von Samothrake, 1938 p. 111, nr. 3, pl. 11 ❐

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