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cn coin 42392

Connected to Type

CN Type 19396 🔍

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
Incuse square divided into four triangles with uneven surfaces.
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Metrology
Denomination
Trihemiobol (1 1/2 obol) 🔍  
Standard: Euboic /Attic
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
10.7 mm
Weight
1.03 g
Owner

Ashmolean Museum, Heberden Coin Room, Oxford, gb ❐

Owner Inventory No.: SNGuk_0504_3640

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: cn-samothrace_0007

Citation

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

Literature

Schwabacher, Ein Fund archaischer Münzen von Samothrake, 1938 p. 111, nr. 4 ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 42392, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_42392 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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