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cn coin 11009

Connected to Type
CN Type 5780 🔍
Mint
Abdera 🔍
Region: Thrace
Typology
Date
c. 395-360 BC
Classical Period  🔍
Obverse
Legend
ΑΒ(Δ)
Design
Griffin leaping left.
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Reverse
Legend
ΕΠΙ ΠΡΩΤΕΩ
Design
Three ears of corn, within linear square.
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Persons
Magistrate
Protes (III) 🔍
Metrology
Denomination
Drachm (tetrobol) 🔍
Material
silver  🔍
Weight
2.65 g
Owner
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr  
Owner Inventory No.: 1966.453
Provenience: Jean et Marie Delepierre; 772
Literature
May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 229, nr. 360 (c. 411/410-386/385 BC)   
May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 228-231, nr. 352-374, pl. 18 (c. 411/410-386/385 BC, persic standard)   
Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 119-126 (ca. 395-360 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. 78, nr. 124, pl. 2, pic. 8 (c. 425-400 BC, drachm)   
Hoover, Handbook of coins of Macedon and its neighbors. Part II: Thrace, Skythia, and Taurike: sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, Pa. London 2017 p. 24, nr. 1218 (drachm)   
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cn coin 11009, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_11009 [Last downloaded: 2025/04/28]
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