cn coin 53585

Connected to Type

CN Type 19394 🔍

Mint

Samothrake 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

c. 500-475 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Sphinx crouching left, raising right forepaw.
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Reverse

Design

Quadripartite incuse square with dotted ground.
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Metrology

Denomination

hemidrachm (triobol) 🔍
Standard: Euboic /Attic

Material

silver 🔍

Diameter

12.5 mm

Weight

1.95 g

Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Nomos Auktion 26, lot 211, From the "Collection sans Pareille" of Ancient Greek Fractions, ex Bank Leu 36, 7 May 1985, 92 and Hess Leu 24, 16 April 1964, 106

Findspot

Samothrake, gr [gr] ❐

Literature

Schwabacher, Ein Fund archaischer Münzen von Samothrake, 1938 p. 110, nr. 2 ❐

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. 71, nr. 303 (Triobol/hemidrachm (attic-euboic standard)) ❐

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cn coin 53585, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_53585 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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