cn coin 26685

Connected to Type

CN Type 5250 🔍

Mint

Abdera 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 450-425 BC
Classical Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Griffin seated left, right forepaw raised.
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Symbol

kantharos (position: at the bottom left)

Reverse

Legend

ΕΠΙ ΣΜΟΡΔΟ Τ ΟΡΜΟΚΑΛ

Design

Quadripartite linear square; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate

Smordos Hermokalleos##Smordotormos/Kal. 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

Stater (tetradrachm) 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Weight

15.03 g

Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb  ❐
Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin [de] ❐
Plaster Cast No: ABD_2L_2_040o/r

Citation

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 126, nr. 138 b  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 67, nr. 22  ❐

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. 125-126, nr. 134-138, pl. 8-9 (c. 473/470-449/448 BC.)   ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 111-119  ❐

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

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cn coin 26685, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_26685 [Last downloaded: 2025/04/26]

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