cn coin 21415

Connected to Type

CN Type 4960 🔍

Mint

Abdera 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 475-450 BC
Classical Period  🔍

Obverse

Legend

ΗΡΑΚ

Design

Griffin seated left, right forepaw raised.
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Symbol

cicada (position: on the left)

Reverse

Design

Quadripartite incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate

Herak- 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

Stater (tetradrachm) 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Weight

14.68 g

Owner

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us  ❐
Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin [de] ❐
Plaster Cast No: ABD_2L_2_001o/r

Citation

Regling, Die griechischen Münzen der Sammlung Warren, Berlin 1906 nr. 436  ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 110, nr. 104, pl. 7  (492-473/470 BC)  ❐

Brett, Catalogue of Greek coins. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1955 nr. 747  ❐

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. 110, nr. 104-107, pl. 7 (c. 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 21415, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_21415 [Last downloaded: 2025/06/22]

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