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cn type 19759

Mint
Samothrake 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 170-168 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Helios facing, slightly right.
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Reverse
Legend
ΗΡΑΚΛΕΙΔΗΣ ΡΟ
Design
Rose, bud to right.
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Symbol
caduceus (position: on the left)
Persons

Magistrate: Herakleides 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
drachm 🔍  
Standard: reduced Rhodian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
15 mm (1x)
Average Weight
2.64 g (1x)
Axes
12 (1x)
Citation

Ashton, Pseudo-Rhodian drachms from Samothrace, 1988 p. 130, nr. V, pl. 31, pic. 11  ❐

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. 318 (reduced rhodian standard)  ❐

editions

cn.samothrace.1_ed.26  🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 19759, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/19759 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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