cn coin 28418

Connected to Type

CN Type 5950 🔍

Mint

Abdera 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 360-350 BC
Classical Period  🔍

Obverse

Legend

ΑΒΔ

Design

Griffin leaping left off capital of Ionic column, forepart and forpaws raised.
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Reverse

Legend

ΕΠΙ ΦΙΛΑΙΟ

Design

Hermes standing left, wearing petasus and chlamys, extending left hand; all within incuse square.
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Symbol

astragalos (position: at the bottom right)

Persons

Magistrate

Philaios 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

Hemisiglos (drachm) 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Weight

2.74 g

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin [de] ❐
Plaster Cast No: ABD_2L_5_049o/r

Citation

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 257, nr. 433 b, pl. 20  (ca. 386/385-375 BC)  ❐

Grose, Catalogue of the McClean collection of Greek coins. 3: Asia Minor, farther Asia, Egypt, Africa, Cambridge 1929 nr. 4023  ❐

Literature

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 127  ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 79, nr. 125, pl. 2, pic. 28 (ca. 425-400 BC)   ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 256-258, nr. 423-438, pl. 20 (c. 386/385-375 BC)   ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 79, nr. 125, pl. 2, pic. 28 (c. 425-400 BC)   ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 127 (354 BC)   ❐

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