cn coin 27685

Connected to Type

CN Type 5831 🔍

Mint

Abdera 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 395-360 BC
Classical Period  🔍

Obverse

Legend

ΑΒΔΗ

Design

Griffin seated left.
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Symbol

cicada (position: on the left)

Reverse

Legend

ΕΠΙ ΦΙΛΑΔΟΣ

Design

Nude Heracles seated left on rock, head facing, rock covered with a lion skin, holding club in his right hand; all within a shallow incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate

Philas 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

stater 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Weight

12.19 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_4_076o/r

Citation

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 234, nr. 392, pl. XIX  (411/10-386/5 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. 119-126  ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 234-235, nr. 391-397/1, pl. 19 (c. 411/410-386/385 BC, aeginetic 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. 72, nr. 105, pl. 11, pic. 40 (c. 425-400 BC, tetradrachm)   ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 119-126  ❐

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cn coin 27685, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_27685 [Last downloaded: 2025/11/08]

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