cn coin 21381

Connected to Type

CN Type 4639 🔍

Mint

Abdera 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 475-450 BC
Classical Period  🔍

Obverse

Legend

ΤΕΛΕ

Design

Griffin seated left, right forepaw raised.
go to the NLP result of this description

Reverse

Design

Quadripartite incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate

Tele- 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

Tetarte (drachm) 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Weight

3.45 g

Owner

Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Coin and Medal Collection, Glasgow, gb  ❐
Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin [de] ❐
Plaster Cast No: ABD_2L_1_055o/r

Citation

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 104-105, nr. 86 a, pl. 6  (492-473/470 BC.)  ❐

Macdonald, Catalogue of Greek coins in the Hunterian collection 1, Glasgow 1899 p. 383, nr. 4  ❐

Literature

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 107-110  ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 104-105, nr. 86, pl. 6 (492-473/470 BC.)   ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 107-110  ❐

Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 179-182  ❐

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cn coin 21381, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_21381 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/15]

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