cn coin 10922

Connected to Type

CN Type 5555 🔍

Mint

Abdera 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 415-395 BC
Classical Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Griffin seated left, right forepaw raised.
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Reverse

Legend

ΕΠΙ ΔΗΜΟΚΡΙΤΟ

Design

Lyre with seven strings; within a linear square; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate

Demokritos 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

tetradrachm 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Weight

13.82 g

Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr  ❐
Provenience: Fonds général 1397

Citation

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 172, nr. 234 b  (c. 439/437-411/410 BC.)  ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 63, nr. 73.4  ❐

Literature

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 172-173, nr. 234-237, pl. 14 (c. 439/437-411/410 BC, reduced Thraco-Macedonian standard)   ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 63, nr. 73  ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 117-118  ❐

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cn coin 10922, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_10922 [Last downloaded: 2025/01/18]

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