ISLANDS OFF THRACE, Samothrace. Circa 168-150 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 40 mm, 15.26 g, 6 h), struck under the magistates Polyxenos and Ant.... Head of Athena to left, wearing a Corinthian helmet adorned with a snake coiled to left. Rev. ΣΑΜΟΘ / ΠΟΛΥ-ΞENOY 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. Berlin 18207685 = HGC VI, 314 (but with the magistrate's name wrongly given as Πολυξενιδου) = Regling, Babylon, ZfN 38, pp. 92 and 102 ff., 1 and Taf. 8 = Schönert-Geiss, Zur Münzprägung von Samothrake. Ein Überblick, ΧΑΡΑΚΤΗΡ, Festschrift M. Oikonomidou, ed. A. Abramea. Athens, 1996. pp. 271-276, and especially p. 273 and fig. 1, 7 (same dies). Bank Leu 45, 1988, 88 (same dies). Extremely rare, the third known example. Toned and struck on a very broad flan. Reverse slightly double-struck, minor marks, otherwise, about extremely fine.
