cn coin 27149

Connected to Type

CN Type 5256 🔍

Mint

Abdera 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 450-425 BC
Classical Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Griffin leaping left.
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Symbol

phallus (position: on the left)

Reverse

Legend

ΕΠΙ ΝΕΣΤΙΟΣ

Design

Quadripartite linear square; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate

Nestis 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

Stater (tetradrachm) 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Weight

13.80 g

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin [de] ❐
Plaster Cast No: ABD_2L_3_020o/r

Citation

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 131, nr. 155, pl. XII  (473/70-449/8 BC)  ❐

Grose, Catalogue of the McClean collection of Greek coins 1, Cambridge 1923 nr. 4003  ❐

Literature

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 111-117  ❐

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. 131, nr. 152-155, pl. 10 (c. 473/470-449/228 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 27149, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_27149 [Last downloaded: 2025/04/18]

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