Tetradrachm - Polyxenos

Features

Issuer	Samothrace (Thracian Islands)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	170 BC - 160 BC
Value	Tetradrachm (4)
Currency	Attic drachm
Composition	Silver
Weight	15.26 g
Diameter	40 mm
Shape	Round (irregular)
Technique	Hammered
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 583776
References	HGC 6# 314 Oliver D. Hoover; 2010. Handbook of Coins of the Islands / Volume 6: Adriatic, Ionian, Thracian, Aegean, and Carpathian Seas (excluding Crete and Cyprus) : Sixth to First Centuries BC. Classical Numismatic Group, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States / London, United Kingdom. , CN type# 19483 Corpus Nummorum Online (https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/)

Obverse

Head of Athena to left, wearing a Corinthian helmet adorned with a snake coiled to left.

Reverse

Kybele, wearing a tall polos and long robes, seated to left on a high-backed and decorated throne; holding a phiale in her extended right hand and a long scepter with her left; under the throne, lion seated to left; in the exergue, monogram of ΑΝΤ.

Script: Greek

Lettering:
ΣΑΜΟΘ
ΠΟΛΥΞΕΝΟΥ

Mint

Samothrace, Insula Thraciae, modern-day Island of Samothrace, Greece

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (170 BC - 160 BC)

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