cn type 19571

Mint

Samothrake 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

c. 500-475 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Sphinx crouching left, raising right forepaw.
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Reverse

Design

Bearded male head (Cabeirus?), left, wearing pilos helmet, within dotted square border; within incuse square.
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Metrology

Denomination

Diobol 🔍
Standard: Euboic /Attic

Material

silver 🔍

Average Weight

1.24 g (1x)

Axes

4 (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. 71, nr. 305 ❐

Schwabacher, Ein Fund archaischer Münzen von Samothrake, 1938 p. 111, nr. 3, pl. 11 ❐

editions

cn.samothrace.1_ed.6 🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 19571, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/19571 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]