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THE
AMERICAN
NUMISMATIC
SOCIETY
MUSEUM
NOTES
V
THE
AMERICAN NUMISMATIC
SOCIETY
BROADWAY AT
56TH
STREET
NEW YORK
952
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CABIRI
ON ARCHAIC
COINS OF
SAMOTHRACE
(See
Plate
XII,
1-3)
The Jameson specimen of an early diobol of Samothrace
was
noted,
among
other valuable
acquisitions
for the
Mu-
seum's collection of Greek
coins,
in the
Proceedings
of the
American
Numismatic
Society
of
195
1
x
The
coin
(Plate
XII,
1),
one of two
known,
had been
published
by
its
former
owner
in the admirable
catalogue
of his
collection
(Vol.
IV,
no.
2443).
In
my publication
of the
Kiourpet
hoard2
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from which a
stater and two other small coins of the Jameson Collection
had
originally
come3
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I dealt with
this rare coin
and,
calling
it a
unique
variety,
described its
reverse
type
as a bearded
head
in Corinthian helmet
within a
square
incuse,
surrounded
by
strongly-dotted
ines. 4
At that
time I
was not
aware
that
there
was a second
specimen
of this
interesting
type
in
the
collection of
Mr.
Edward
T.
Newell.
Informing
me of
this,
the
late
Mr.
Newell added
that he was
pleased
to see
that in
my
own
series I
now
have
all the
varieties
represented
in
the
hoard,
except
the
large
coins
and
possibly your
Pl.
XI, 10,
though
I
have
something
very
much like the
latter
piece.
In
the
same
letter
Mr. Newell added
further
that,
in further
support
of
my
thesis,
he
had
always
been
convinced that
the
bearded
head on
the
reverse of
your
Plate
XI,
3
does
not wear
1
Proceedingsf
The
Americanumismatic
ociety,cKi, .
26.
2
S.
P.
Noe,
Bibliographyf
Greek
oinHoards
(Num.
Notes
nd
Monographs8),
p.152,
o.
565.
3
Cf. ollection.JamesonVol.V 1932), . 27,note ollowingo. 444.4
Transactions
f
he
nternational
umismatic
ongress,
936 London,.
938),
.
in,
no.
3,
Pl.
XI,
3.
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5
o
A.
N. S. MUSEUM
NOTES
a
Corinthian
helmet,
but some sort of
cap
and
is in
actuality
an
interesting
representation
of a bearded
Cabirus .
The
acquisition
of the
Jameson
diobol for the collection of
the American Numismatic
Society
has offered me an
op-
portunity
to
publish
the above
important
remarks which its
late
President communicated to
me
after
having
received
my
article on the Kiourpet hoard. There can be no doubt that my
description
of the
Jameson
coin was incorrect and
that the
presumed
Corinthian helmet
is in fact
some sort of
cap,
very
appropriate
for an
early representation
of
a
bearded
Cabirus.5
The
pilos
as the
characteristic headdress of Cabirus
seems to
appear
rather late in the
history
of
its
representa-
tion.6
In
any
case,
Mr.
Newell's
observation
supports
my
attribution of the uninscribed
small
types
of
the
Kiourpet
hoard to
Samothrace,
as a
hitherto unknown
early coinage
of
the
island
of the Samotbrakes
Tbeoi.
Mr. Newell also called
my
attention to
the
possibility
of
ex-
plaining
the
type
of
one
other coin in the
hoard
(the
hemiobol,
Pl.
XI,
7
of
my
article)
as another head of a
bearded Cabirus.
He stated that
specimens
in his
own collection
(Plate
XII,
2-3)
showed
the
head to be not that of Athena
but also of a
bearded
person wearing
a
spiked
cap
(like
certain Thracians
on
the
vase
paintings).
He
believed that
here, too,
we have
the representation of a bearded Cabirus. Here, again, I wish
to
express
full
agreement
with
Mr.
Newell's better
explanation
of this somewhat unclear
type,
which thus
fits
in
so well into
the
important
archaic issues of the
island.7
6
OnCabiri
n
oins f.
H.
von
ritze,
Birytis
nd ie
Kabiren
uf
Münzen,
n
Zeit-
schrift
ür
umismatik,
XIV
1904),
.
105
f.
recent
eneral
reatise
n
heCabiri
is:
Bengt emberg,
ie
Kabiren
Uppsala,950),
54pp.
nd
maps.
6
The arliestoins ith
ypes
f
Cabiri
earing
ilos
nowno
von ritzere
lectrum
and
old
taters
f
Cyzicus
nd
ampsacus
f he
ourth
entury
.c.Cf.
Hemberg,
oc.
cit.,
p.
146,
79i.
7The ttributionftheseoins o SamothraceasrecentlygreedobyE. S. G.
Robinson
n
Hesperia,upplement
III
(1949), .
335;
f.
B.
Hemberg,
oc.
it.,
. 57.
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CABIRI ON COINS OF SAMOTHRACE
51
The American
excavations on Samothrace have
not
yet
produced
any
numismatic material
to confirm
my
conclusions
drawn from
the
Kiourpet
hoard.8
Let us
hope
that the attribu-
tion
of this
late archaic
coinage
to
Samothrace
may
be
sup-
ported
by
new finds under controlled conditions on
the
island.
Willy
Schwabacher
8
Cf.,
owever,
.
Lehmann-Hartleben,
JA
XLIV
1940), . 355.
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XII
SAMOTHRACE
(1-3)
ANTIOCH IN SYRIA
(4-10)
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