cn type 19482
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cn type 19482

Mint
Samothrake 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 168-150 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Athena, left, wearing Corinthian helmet.
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Reverse
Legend
ΣΑΜΟ ΜΗΤΙΑΝΑ
Design
Cybele enthroned left, wearing a polos, holding patera in outstretched right hand and pelleted sceptre in left arm.
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Symbol
lion seated, left (position: Beneath throne)
Persons

Magistrate: Metiana... 🔍

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: reduced Attic
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
30 mm (1x)
Average Weight
16.94 g (1x)
Axes
8 (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. 73, nr. 314 (c. 166-150 BC; different magistrate's name.)  ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Zur Münzprägung von Samothrake: Ein Überblick, 1996 p. 273,276, pl. 1, pic. 6 (c. 280 BC)  ❐

editions

cn.samothrace.1_ed.32  🔍

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cn type 19482, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/19482 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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