cn coin 42390

Connected to Type

CN Type 19394 🔍

Mint

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: 14 mm / Min: 13 mm

Weight

2.02 g

Owner

Ashmolean Museum, Heberden Coin Room, Oxford, gb ❐

Provenience: SNGuk_0504_3638

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: cn-samohrace_0002

Literature

Robinson et al., Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. Volume V: Ashmolean Museum Oxford, London 1951 ❐

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)) ❐

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cn coin 42390, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_42390 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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