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cn coin 5901

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CN Type 19373 🔍

Mint
Samothrake 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 500-478 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
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Design
Sphinx crouching left, raising right forepaw.
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Reverse
Design
Quadripartite incuse square with uneven surfaces.
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Metrology
Denomination
stater 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
21 mm
Weight
8.06 g
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18247067

Provenience: 1911/178

Literature

Schwabacher, Ein Fund archaischer Münzen von Samothrake, 1938 p. 110, nr. 1, pl. 11, pic. 1 ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Zur Münzprägung von Samothrake: Ein Überblick, 1996 p. 271-273, pic. 1,1 (c. 500-478 BC.)  ❐

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. 301 (c. 500-475 BC; attic-euboic standard.)  ❐

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cn coin 5901, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_5901 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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