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cn coin 43158

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CN Type 19786 🔍

Mint
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 ΠΟΛΥΞΕΝΙΔΗΣ
Design
Forpart of a ram, to right.
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Persons

Magistrate: Polyxenos 🔍  

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 16.5 mm / Min: 15.9 mm
Weight
2.87 g
Axis
11
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 1841,B.2733

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: cn-samothrace_0347

Public Commentary

In London different reading of the magistrate's name.

Literature

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 215, nr. 7 ❐

Phardys, Νομισματικά Σαμοθράκης 1 p. 256, nr. Β ❐

Bloesch, Griechische Münzen in Winterthur, Winterthur 1987 p. 120, nr. 1288 ❐

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cn coin 43158, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_43158 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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