cn type 19817

Mint

Samothrake 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

c. 171-168 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of Helios facing, slightly right.
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Reverse

Legend

ΓΟΡΓΟΣ ΡΟ

Design

Rose, bud to right.
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Symbol

caduceus (position: on the left)

Persons

Magistrate: Gorgos 🔍

Metrology

Denomination

drachm 🔍
Standard: reduced Rhodian

Material

silver 🔍

Diameter

Max: 17 mm / Min: 14 mm

Average Weight

2.62 g (3x)

Axes

1 (1x) 2 (1x) 9 (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. 319 (reduced rhodian standard) ❐

Ashton, Clubs, thunderbolts, torches, stars and caducei. More pseudo-Rhodian drachms from mainland Greece and the islands, 2002 p. 74-75, nr. 1-35, pl. 17-18 (R. Ashton (2002) suggested that two large issues of pseudo-Rhodian drachms with the name Gorgos and the symbols torch and caduceus, may belong to Samothrace.) ❐

editions

cn.samothrace.1_ed.25 🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 19817, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/19817 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]