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cn coin 42416

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CN Type 13156 🔍

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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 ΤΕΙΣΙΚ
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: Beneath throne)
Persons

Magistrate: Teisik... 🔍

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 19.6 mm / Min: 19.2 mm
Weight
5.50 g
Axis
9
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 1926,0422.1

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: cn-samothrace_0177

Literature

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 285, nr. 16 ❐

Prokesch-Osten, Autonome thrakische Münzen der Sammlung Prokesch-Osten 4, 1872 p. 217, nr. 10 ❐

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. 1000-1001 (c. 280 BC)  ❐

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cn coin 42416, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_42416 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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