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cn type 19576

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Samothrake 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

2.-early 1. c. BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Draped bust of Hermes, right, with petasos.
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Symbol
caduceus (position: on the left)
Reverse
Legend
ΣΑΜΟΘΡΑΚΩΝ ΣΕΙΡΩΝΟΣ ΤΡΙΩΒΟΛΟ
Design
ram standing, r.
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Persons

Magistrate: Seiron 🔍  

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 22.9 mm / Min: 22.8 mm
Average Weight
10.36 g (1x)
Citation

Macdonald, Catalogue of Greek coins in the Hunterian collection 1, Glasgow 1899 p. 338, nr. 1, pl. 26, pic. 7  ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Zur Münzprägung von Samothrake: Ein Überblick, 1996 p. 274, pl. 1, pic. 17, annot. 19  ❐

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. 320 ❐

editions

cn.samothrace.1_ed.18  🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 19576, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/19576 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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