cn type 19483

Mint

Samothrake 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

c. 170-160 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of Athena, left, wearing Corinthian helmet.
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Reverse

Legend

ΣΑΜΟΘ ΠΟΛΥΞΕΝΟΥ

Design

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

(position: in exergue)

Symbol

lion seated, left (position: Beneath throne)

Persons

Magistrate: Polyxenos 🔍

Metrology

Denomination

tetradrachm 🔍
Standard: reduced Attic

Material

silver 🔍

Diameter

36 mm (1x)

Average Weight

15.87 g (2x)

Axes

6 (1x)

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Zur Münzprägung von Samothrake: Ein Überblick, 1996 p. 273, pl. 1, pic. 7 (170-160 BC.) ❐

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. 73, nr. 314 (c. 166-150 BC; Polyxenidou) ❐

editions

cn.samothrace.1_ed.31 🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 19483, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/19483 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]