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cn coin 11047

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
13.6 g
Owner
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr  
Owner Inventory No.: 1998.87
Provenience: Faux; Don Serge Boutin
Reproduction Owner
BBAW, Berlin [de]
Plaster Cast No: Morel
Public Commentary
In the BnF this coin is classified as a forgery.
Citation
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. 73.6  (13.65 g) 
May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 172, annot. fn. 2 
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 11047, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_11047 [Last downloaded: 2025/01/14]
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