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cn coin 42415

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CN Type 19442 🔍

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Samothrake 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 168-80 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Athena, right, wearing Corinthian helmet.
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Reverse
Legend
ΣΑΜΟ ΑΙΣΧΡΙ
Design
Cybele enthroned left, wearing a polos, holding patera in outstretched right hand and pelleted sceptre in left arm.
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Persons

Magistrate: Aischrion 🔍

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 19.4 mm / Min: 19.2 mm
Weight
6.39 g
Owner

Die Göttinger Universitäts-Münzsammlung, Göttingen, de ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: AS4

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: cn-samothrace_0193

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; different names.)  ❐

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. 993-1001 (c. 280 BC., different legend.)  ❐

Boutin, Catalogue des monnaies grecques antiques de l'ancienne collection Pozzi: monnaies frappées en Europe, Maastricht 1979 p. 129, nr. 2369 ❐

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cn coin 42415, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_42415 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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