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cn coin 42364

Connected to Type

CN Type 19394 🔍

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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
Quadripartite incuse square with dotted ground.
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Metrology
Denomination
hemidrachm (triobol) 🔍  
Standard: Euboic /Attic
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 13.2 mm / Min: 13.1 mm
Weight
1.94 g
Axis
1
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 1937,0606.33

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: cn-samothrake_0003

Public Commentary

In London as diobol. Date 400-301 BC.

Literature

Schwabacher, Ein Fund archaischer Münzen von Samothrake, 1938 p. 110, nr. 2 ❐

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. 303 (Triobol/hemidrachm (attic-euboic standard))  ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 42364, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_42364 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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