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cn type 19399

Edition
cn.samothrace.1_ed.4
Mint
Samothrake 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 500-475 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Sphinx seated left, raising right forepaw.
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Reverse
Design
Lion's head, left, within dotted square border; within incuse square.
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Metrology
Denomination
hemidrachm (triobol) 🔍  
Standard: Euboic /Attic
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 14.2 mm / Min: 13.3 mm
Average Weight
2.10 g (5x)
Axes
3 (1x) 9 (2x)
Public Commentary

In Paris as diobol.

Literature

Schwabacher, Ein Fund archaischer Münzen von Samothrake, 1938 nr. 9 ❐

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. 71, nr. 304 (Triobol/hemidrachm.)  ❐

editions

cn.samothrace.1_ed.4  🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 19399, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/cn.samothrace.1_ed.4 [Last downloaded: 2026/04/13]

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