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cn coin 53587

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CN Type 19401 🔍

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Samothrake 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 500-450BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Forepart of a sphinx right, one paw raised.
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Reverse
Design
Quadripartite incuse square with uneven surfaces.
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Metrology
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Material
Diameter
7 mm
Weight
0.55 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Nomos Auktion 26, lot 213. From the "Collection sans Pareille" of Ancient Greek Fractions, ex Münzen und Medaillen FPL 505, November-December 1987, 65

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Samothrake, gr [gr]

Literature

Schwabacher, Ein Fund archaischer Münzen von Samothrake, 1938 p. 111, nr. 5

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. 72, nr. 307 (Obol.) 

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cn coin 53587, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_53587 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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