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cn coin 43649

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CN Type 19817 🔍

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Samothrake 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 171-168 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Helios facing, slightly right.
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Reverse
Legend
ΓΟΡΓΟΣ ΡΟ
Design
Rose, bud to right.
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Symbol
caduceus (position: on the left)
Persons

Magistrate: Gorgos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
drachm 🔍  
Standard: reduced Rhodian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
14 mm
Weight
2.66 g
Axis
9
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18279828

Provenience: 1875 Prokesch-Osten

Citation

Ashton, Clubs, thunderbolts, torches, stars and caducei. More pseudo-Rhodian drachms from mainland Greece and the islands, 2002 p. 75, nr. 16, pl. 18  (R. Ashton (2002) suggested that two large issues of pseudo-Rhodian drachms with the name Gorgos and the symbols torch and caduceus, may belong to Samothrace.)  ❐

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. 319 (reduced rhodian standard)  ❐

Ashton, Clubs, thunderbolts, torches, stars and caducei. More pseudo-Rhodian drachms from mainland Greece and the islands, 2002 p. 74-75, nr. 1-35, pl. 17-18 (R. Ashton (2002) suggested that two large issues of pseudo-Rhodian drachms with the name Gorgos and the symbols torch and caduceus, may belong to Samothrace.)  ❐

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cn coin 43649, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_43649 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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