cn coin 26761

Connected to Type

CN Type 5278 🔍

Mint

Abdera 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 450-425 BC
Classical Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Griffin leaping left.
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Symbol

owl (position: above)

Reverse

Legend

ΕΠΙ ΔΕΟΝΥΔΟΣ

Design

Quadripartite linear square; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate

Deonys (Abdera) 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

Stater (tetradrachm) 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Weight

14.87 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_066o/r

Citation

May, The Coinage of Dikaia-by-Abdera c. 540/35-476/5 B.C. 5, 1965 p. 137, nr. 175 b  (473/70-449/8 BC\r\n)  ❐

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  ❐

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  ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 136-137, nr. 175-176, pl. 11 (c. 473/470-449/448 BC.)   ❐

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cn coin 26761, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_26761 [Last downloaded: 2025/04/26]

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