cn coin 53587

Connected to Type

CN Type 19401 🔍

Mint

Samothrake 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

c. 500-450BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Forepart of a sphinx right, one paw raised.
go to the NLP result of this description

Reverse

Design

Quadripartite incuse square with uneven surfaces.
go to the NLP result of this description

Metrology

Denomination

Obol 🔍

Material

silver 🔍

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

Findspot

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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