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cn coin 42368

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CN Type 19481 🔍

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Samothrake 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 168-150 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Athena, right, wearing Corinthian helmet.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΣΑΜΟ - ΜΗΤΡΩΝΑ
Design
Cybele enthroned left, wearing a polos, holding patera in outstretched right hand and pelleted sceptre in left arm.
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Symbol
lion seated, left (position: Beneath throne)
Persons

Magistrate: Metronax 🔍

Metrology
Denomination
didrachm 🔍  
Standard: reduced Attic
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 22.2 mm / Min: 21.7 mm
Weight
8.05 g
Axis
5
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 1848,0819.38

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: cn-samothrace_0026

Public Commentary

pierced

Citation

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 215, nr. 1  ❐

Literature

Schwabacher, Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. Copenhagen. The Royal Collection of Coins and Medals. Danish National Museum. Part 7: Thrace 2: Odessus - Sestos. Islands. Kings and Dynasts 7, Copenhagen 1943 nr. 992 (c. 280 BC.; Head of Athena to left.)  ❐

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. 73, nr. 315 (c. 166-150 BC)  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 215, nr. 1 ❐

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cn coin 42368, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_42368 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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