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cn type 19575

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Samothrake 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 500-475 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Athena, right, wearing Attic helmet.
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Reverse
Design
Incuse square divided into four triangles with uneven surfaces.
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Metrology
Denomination
Hemiobol 🔍  
Standard: Euboic /Attic
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
7.5 mm (1x)
Average Weight
0.32 g (2x)
Public Commentary

Head on obverse is also described in literature as head of a Kabeiros.

Literature

Schwabacher, Ein Fund archaischer Münzen von Samothrake, 1938 p. 115, nr. 7, pl. 11 ❐

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. 309 ❐

editions

cn.samothrace.1_ed.11  🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 19575, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/19575 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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