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Mint

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cn type 19442

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 ΑΙΣΧΡΙ

Design

Cybele enthroned left, wearing a polos, holding patera in outstretched right hand and pelleted sceptre in left arm.
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Persons

Magistrate: Aischrion 🔍

Metrology

Material

bronze 🔍

Diameter

Max: 19.4 mm / Min: 19.2 mm

Average Weight

5.42 g (5x)

Axes

1 (1x)

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. 321 (Denomination B, 2nd to early 1st cent. BC; different names.) ❐

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. 993-1001 (c. 280 BC., different legend.) ❐

Boutin, Catalogue des monnaies grecques antiques de l'ancienne collection Pozzi: monnaies frappées en Europe, Maastricht 1979 p. 129, nr. 2369 ❐

editions

cn.samothrace.1_ed.45 🔍

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cn type 19442, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/19442 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]