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cn type 19480

Mint

Samothrake 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

c. 168-150 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of Athena, left, wearing Corinthian helmet.
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Reverse

Legend

ΣΑΜΟ ΜΗΤΡΩΝΑ

Design

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

lion seated, left (position: Beneath throne)

Persons

Magistrate: Metronax 🔍

Metrology

Denomination

didrachm 🔍
Standard: reduced Attic

Material

silver 🔍

Diameter

Max: 23.6 mm / Min: 23.2 mm

Average Weight

7.34 g (3x)

Axes

3 (1x)

Literature

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. 992 (c. 280 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. 73, nr. 315 (c. 166-150 BC; Head of Athena to right.) ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 215, nr. 1 (Head of Athena to right.) ❐

editions

cn.samothrace.1_ed.33 🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 19480, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/19480 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]