cn type 19401

Edition

An edition has been created for this type.🔍

Mint

Samothrake 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 500-450BC
Archaic Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Forepart of a sphinx right, one paw raised.
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Reverse

Design

Quadripartite incuse square with uneven surfaces.
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Metrology

Denomination

Obol 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

7 mm (1x)

Average Weight

0.49 g (2x)

Literature

Schwabacher, Ein Fund archaischer Münzen von Samothrake, 1938 p. 111, nr. 5  ❐

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. 72, nr. 307 (Obol.)   ❐

editions

cn.samothrace.1_ed.12 🔍

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cn type 19401, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/19401 [Last downloaded: 2025/06/22]

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