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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
Denomination
Obol 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
7 mm (1x)
Average Weight
0.49 g (2x)
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.)  ❐

editions

cn.samothrace.1_ed.12  🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 19401, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/19401 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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