cn coin 42289

Connected to Type

CN Type 19575 🔍

Mint

Samothrake 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

c. 500-475 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of Athena, right, wearing Attic helmet.
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Reverse

Design

Incuse square divided into four triangles with uneven surfaces.
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Metrology

Denomination

Hemiobol 🔍
Standard: Euboic /Attic

Material

silver 🔍

Weight

0.34 g

Owner

American Numismatic Society, New York, us ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 1944.100.16684

Hoard

IGCH 696 ❐

Public Commentary

In ANS obv. as male head with bear (Cabeirus?).

Literature

Schwabacher, Ein Fund archaischer Münzen von Samothrake, 1938 p. 115, nr. 7, pl. 11 ❐

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. 309 ❐

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cn coin 42289, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_42289 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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