cn type 19758

Edition

cn.samothrace.1_ed.27

Mint

Samothrake 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

c. 170-168 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of Helios facing, slightly right.
go to the NLP result of this description

Reverse

Legend

ΠΟΡΘΑΩΝ ΡΟ

Design

Rose, bud to right.
go to the NLP result of this description

Symbol

caduceus (position: on the left)

Persons

Magistrate: Porthaon 🔍

Metrology

Denomination

drachm 🔍
Standard: reduced Rhodian

Material

silver 🔍

Citation

Ashton, Pseudo-Rhodian drachms from Samothrace, 1988 p. 130, nr. IV, pl. 31, pic. 10 ❐

Svoronos, ΘΗΣΑΥΡΟΣ ΝΟΜΙΣΜΑΤΩΝ ΕΞ ΩΡΕΟΥ ΤΗΣ ΕΥΒΟΙΑΣ 5, 1902 p. 327, nr. 490 ❐

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. 318 (reduced rhodian standard) ❐

editions

cn.samothrace.1_ed.27 🔍

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