cn type 13088

Mint

Samothrake 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

c. 168-80 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of Athena, right, wearing Corinthian helmet.
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Reverse

Legend

ΣΑΜΟ ΦΡΥΝΙ

Design

Head of ram, left.
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Symbol

caduceus (position: on the right)

Persons

Magistrate: Phryni... 🔍

Metrology

Material

bronze 🔍

Diameter

Max: 11 mm / Min: 10.5 mm

Average Weight

1.21 g (2x)

Axes

6 (1x) 12 (1x)

Literature

Imhoof-Blumer, Zur griechischen und römischen Münzkunde, Genf 1908 p. 256, nr. 3 ❐

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. 1003-1006 (c. 280 BC, variant legend.) ❐

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. 75, nr. 324 (Denomination D, 2nd-early 1st cent. BC; variant legend.) ❐

editions

cn.samothrace.1_ed.61 🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 13088, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/13088 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]