cn coin 48561

Connected to Type

CN Type 19577 🔍

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 ΠΥΘΟΚ

Design

Turreted Cybele enthroned left, holding patera in outstretched right hand, sceptre in left.
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Symbol

lion seated, left (position: Beneath throne)

Persons

Magistrate: Pythok... 🔍

Metrology

Material

bronze 🔍

Weight

4.19 g

Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Gorny & Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung, Auktion 118, 14./15. 10. 2002, lot 1168

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. 321 (Denomination B, 2nd to 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. 998 ❐

Mannsperger and Balluff, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : Deutschland [1] Münzsammlung der Universität Tübingen H. 2 Taurische Chersones - Korkyra: Nr. 731 - 1542, 1982 nr. 934 (c. 280 BC) ❐

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cn coin 48561, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_48561 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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