cn coin 28572

Connected to Type

CN Type 6060 🔍

Mint

Abdera 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 346/345-336 BC
Classical Period  🔍

Obverse

Legend

ΕΠΙ ΠΑΥΣΑΝΙΩ

Design

Griffin lying left, right forepaw raised.
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Reverse

Legend

ΑΒΔΗΡΙΤΕΩΝ

Design

Laureate head of Apollo, right; within linear square.
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Persons

Magistrate

Pausanias 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

Hemisiglos (drachm) 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Weight

2.25 g

Owner

Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Coin and Medal Collection, Glasgow, gb  ❐
Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin [de] ❐
Plaster Cast No: ABD_2L_5_138o/r

Citation

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 86, nr. 141.8  (c. 400-390 BC)  ❐

Literature

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 274, nr. 464, pl. 22 (c. 346/345-336 BC)   ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 128-134  ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 86, nr. 141 (c. 400-390 BC)   ❐

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cn coin 28572, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_28572 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/11]

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