cn coin 27234

Connected to Type

CN Type 5550 🔍

Mint

Abdera 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 415-395 BC
Classical Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Griffin leaping left.
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Reverse

Legend

ΗΓΗΣΑΓΟΡΗΣ

Design

Youthful male head, left, within linear square; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate

Hegesagores 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

tetradrachm 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Weight

14.36 g

Owner

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us  ❐
Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.
Owner Inventory No.: Boston Catalogue, no. 761

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin [de] ❐
Plaster Cast No: ABD_2L_3_054o/r

Citation

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 171, nr. 230, pl. XIV  (439/37-411/10 BC)  ❐

Regling, Die griechischen Münzen der Sammlung Warren, Berlin 1906 nr. 449  ❐

Literature

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 117-119  ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 170-171, nr. 228-232, pl. 14 (c. 439/437-411/410 BC, reduced Thraco-Macedonian standard)   ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 117-118  ❐

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cn coin 27234, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_27234 [Last downloaded: 2025/06/16]

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