Samothrake, Hemiobol (CN type 19573)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
ca. 500-475 v. Chr.
Issuing entity
ThraceHemiobol in silver struck at Samothrake in Thrace dated ca. 500-475 v. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 19573. Obverse: Bull's head, left. Reverse: Bucranium facing within incuse square.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- silver
- Denomination
- Hemiobol
- Recorded mean weight
- 0.34 g (mean of 2 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Samothrake
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
- Weight standard
- Euboic /Attic
Design
- Obverse type
- Bull's head, left.
- Reverse type
- Bucranium facing within incuse square.
Identification
- Period
- Archaic Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/19573
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 19573
Documentation checklist
- Denomination
- Documented
- Issue or mint date
- Documented
- Material
- Documented
- Weight
- Documented
- Mint or printer
- Documented
- Mint or printer mark
- Research required
- Catalogue reference
- Documented
- Licensed photograph
- Documented
Catalogue references
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 116, nr. 11
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 72, nr. 311
Research required
- Diameter not recorded in the source corpus
- Legends not transcribed in the source corpus
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution