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cn coin 42453

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CN Type 13093 🔍

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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 ΠΟΡΘΑΩ
Design
Head of ram, left.
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Symbol
caduceus (position: on the left)
Persons

Magistrate: Porthaon 🔍

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 12.9 mm / Min: 12.7 mm
Weight
1.39 g
Axis
3
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 1906,1007.7

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: cn-samothrace_0310

Literature

Imhoof-Blumer, Zur griechischen und römischen Münzkunde, Genf 1908 p. 257, nr. 5 ❐

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. 75, nr. 324 (Denomination D, 2nd-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. 1003-1006 (c. 280 BC, variant legend.)  ❐

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cn coin 42453, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_42453 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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