original - License: Public Domain Mark 1.0 - Photographer: Lutz-Jürgen Lübke (Lübke & Wiedemann) ❐

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cn type 19433

Mint

Samothrake 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

c. 168-80 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of Athena, right, wearing Corinthian helmet.
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Reverse

Legend

ΣΑΜΟ ΞΕΝΟΤ

Design

Cybele enthroned left, wearing a polos, holding patera in outstretched right hand and pelleted sceptre in left arm.
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Persons

Magistrate: Xenot... 🔍

Metrology

Material

bronze 🔍

Diameter

Max: 20 mm / Min: 19.5 mm

Average Weight

4.47 g (6x)

Axes

1 (2x) 2 (1x)

Literature

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. 74, nr. 321 (Denomination B, 2nd to early 1st cent. BC) ❐

Schwabacher, Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. Copenhagen. The Royal Collection of Coins and Medals. Danish National Museum. Part 7: Thrace 2: Odessus - Sestos. Islands. Kings and Dynasts 7, Copenhagen 1943 nr. 997 ❐

editions

cn.samothrace.1_ed.77 🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 19433, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/19433 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]