cn type 19374
cn type 19374-0
cn type 19374-1
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cn type 19374

Mint
Samothrake 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 500-478 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Sphinx crouching left, raising right forepaw.
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Reverse
Legend
ΣΑΜΟ
Design
Quadripartite incuse square, within Ethnic.
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Metrology
Denomination
drachm 🔍  
Standard: Euboic /Attic
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
16 mm (1x)
Average Weight
3.40 g (1x)
Axes
1 (1x)
Citation

Schwabacher, Ein Fund archaischer Münzen von Samothrake, 1938 p. 110, nr. 1 B, pl. 11  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Zur Münzprägung von Samothrake: Ein Überblick, 1996 p. 272 (c. 500-478 BC)  ❐

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. 302 (c. 500-475 BC: attic-euboic standard.)  ❐

editions

cn.samothrace.1_ed.2  🔍

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cn type 19374, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/19374 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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