cn coin 46498

Connected to Type

CN Type 19763 🔍

Mint

Samothrake 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

c. 500-475 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Sphinx seated left, raising right forepaw.
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Reverse

Design

Incuse square of mill-sail pattern with roughened surface.
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Metrology

Denomination

Trihemiobol (1 1/2 obol) 🔍
Standard: Euboic /Attic

Material

silver 🔍

Weight

8.91 g

Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Provenience: Leu Numismatik AG 81 (16 May 2001) 137. Ex Bank Leu 42, 12 May 1987, 154, and from the collections of C. Gillet, Bank Leu & Münzen und Medaillen (Kunstfreund), 28 May 1974, 45, R. Jameson, and from the Kiourpet (Chora on Samothrace) Hoard of 1930 (IGCH 696).

Literature

Schwabacher, Ein Fund archaischer Münzen von Samothrake, 1938 p. 112, nr. 10, pl. 11 ❐

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cn coin 46498, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_46498 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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