cn coin 42393

Connected to Type

CN Type 19399 🔍

Mint
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
Diameter
Max: 13.5 mm / Min: 13.3 mm
Weight
2.00 g
Axis
3
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: G.367

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de]

Plaster Cast No: cn-samothrace_0012

Findspot

Samothrake, gr [gr]

Hoard

IGCH 696

Public Commentary

In London as obol.

Citation

Schwabacher, Ein Fund archaischer Münzen von Samothrake, 1938 p. 112, nr. 9x 

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.) 

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cn coin 42393, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_42393 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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