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cn coin 42428

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CN Type 19484 🔍

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Samothrake 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 1.-2. c. AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Draped bust of Athena to right, with helmet and with aegis.
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Symbol
star (position: on the left)
Reverse
Legend
ϹΑΜΟΘΡΑΚΩΝ
Design
Cybele enthroned left, wearing a polos, holding patera in outstretched right hand and pelleted sceptre in left arm.
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Symbol
star (position: Beneath throne)
Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 19.7 mm / Min: 19.1 mm
Weight
7.22 g
Axis
7
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 1841,B.60

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: cn-samothace_0226

Literature

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 215, nr. 11 (period of Roman Dominion)  ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Zur Münzprägung von Samothrake: Ein Überblick, 1996 p. 274, pl. 1, pic. 17 ❐

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cn coin 42428, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_42428 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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