Triobol

Features

Issuer Samos (Ionia)
Type Standard circulation coin
Year 512 BC
Value 3 Obols (½)
Currency Drachm
Composition Silver
Weight 1.61 g
Diameter 10.0 mm
Shape Round (irregular)
Technique Hammered, incuse
Orientation Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
186879
References SNG Fitzwilliam# 4634,
Fritz Heichelheim; 1940. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum (Great Britain) / Volume 4.1. The Fitzwilliam Museum. Leake and General Collections : Spain (Emporiae, Rhoda) - Italy. Oxford University Press, London, United Kingdom.
And 7 more volumes.
HGC 6# 1994
Oliver D. Hoover; 2010. The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series / Volume 6. Handbook of Coins of the Islands : Adriatic, Ionian, Thracian, Aegean, and Carpathian Seas (excluding Crete and Cyprus) : Sixth to First Centuries BC. Classical Numismatic Group, Lancaster, Pennsylvania - London, United Kingdom.

Obverse

Facing head of a panther. All within square of pellets.

Reverse

Head of an ox to left, within a square border pellets enclosing a border of pellets. All within an incuse square.

Mint

Samos, Ionia, modern-day Island of Samos, Greece

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Past sales

Pictures Sale Date Grade Sold price
Picture 1 of a sold Triobol
Roma Numismatics
Auction XXIX
Lot 177
Internet Archive
9 Nov 2023 XF USD 1517.82
(GBP 1200.00)
(+ buyer's premium)
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