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cn coin 42401

Connected to Type

CN Type 19466 🔍

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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
ΣΑΜΟ ΜΗΤΡΩ(Ν/ΝΑ)
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: )
Persons

Magistrate: Metronax 🔍

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 20.1 mm / Min: 19.2 mm
Weight
5.71 g
Axis
11
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 1920,0223.16

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: cn-samothrace_0131

Literature

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. 74, nr. 321 (Denomination B, 2nd to early 1st cent. BC.)  ❐

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. 996 (c. 280 BC)  ❐

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cn coin 42401, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_42401 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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