cn coin 27363
- Connected to Type
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CN Type 5555 🔍
- Date
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c. 415-395 BC
Classical Period 🔍
- Obverse
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- Design
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Griffin seated left, right forepaw raised.
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- Reverse
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- Legend
- ΕΠΙ ΔΗΜΟΚΡΙΤΟ
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- Design
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Lyre with seven strings; within a linear square; all within incuse square.
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- Owner
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Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston,
us
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Owner Inventory No.: 04.590
- Reproduction Owner
- BBAW,
Berlin
[de]
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Plaster Cast No: Warren
- Public Commentary
- https://collections.mfa.org/objects/2310/tetradrachm-of-abdera-with-seated-griffin-struck-under-demo
- Citation
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May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 173, nr. 236a, pl. XIV (439/37-411/10 BC) ❐Regling, Die griechischen Münzen der Sammlung Warren, Berlin 1906 nr. 445 ❐Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 63, nr. 73.3 ❐Brett, Catalogue of Greek coins. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1955 nr. 759 ❐
- Literature
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May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 172-173, nr. 234-237, pl. 14 (c. 439/437-411/410 BC, reduced Thraco-Macedonian standard) ❐Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 63, nr. 73 ❐Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 117-118 ❐Web Reference: https://collections.mfa.org/objects/2310/tetradrachm-of-abdera-with-seated-griffin-struck-under-demo ❐
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- cn coin 27363, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_27363 [Last downloaded: 2025/04/27]
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