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cn coin 42363

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CN Type 19399 🔍

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Samothrake 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 500-475 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Sphinx seated left, raising right forepaw.
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Reverse
Design
Lion's head, left, within dotted square border; within incuse square.
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Metrology
Denomination
hemidrachm (triobol) 🔍  
Standard: Euboic /Attic
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
13.2 mm
Weight
2.30 g
Axis
9
Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 1937,0606.35

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: cn-samothrake_0010

Public Commentary

In London as obol.

Literature

Schwabacher, Ein Fund archaischer Münzen von Samothrake, 1938 nr. 9 ❐

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. 304 (Triobol/hemidrachm.)  ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 42363, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_42363 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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