cn coin 42288

Connected to Type

CN Type 19574 🔍

Mint

Samothrake 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

c. 500-475 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of Athena, left, wearing Attic helmet.
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Reverse

Design

Star with eight rays, within incuse square.
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Metrology

Denomination

Obol 🔍
Standard: Euboic /Attic

Material

silver 🔍

Weight

0.55 g

Owner

American Numismatic Society, New York, us ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 1944.100.16686

Hoard

IGCH 696 ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Zur Münzprägung von Samothrake: Ein Überblick, 1996 p. 271 ❐

Schwabacher, Ein Fund archaischer Münzen von Samothrake, 1938 p. 115, nr. 8, pl. 11 (Athena wearing corinthian helmet.) ❐

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. 72, nr. 310 (Hemiobol.) ❐

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cn coin 42288, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_42288 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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