cn coin 21162

Obverse

Design: Griffin seated left, with feathered wings, second wing to be seen in background, with tail curling and closed beak; to left, fly. Border of dots.

Reverse

Design: Nude Heracles seated left on rock, head and torso facing, rock covered with a lion skin, holding club in his right hand that rests on his right knee and resting his left elbow on his thigh, traces of drapery on right thigh; all within a shallow incuse square.

Persons

Metrology

Owner: Martin von Wagner Museum, Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, de ❐
Owner Inventory No.: Ka 1258 = H 6625
Provenience: Ex Coll. Herbert Wellhöfer

Literature: May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 396 ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 123 ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 234-235, nr. 391-397/1, pl. 19 ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 72, nr. 105, pl. 11, pic. 40 ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 119-126 ❐

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