cn coin 28753

Connected to Type

CN Type 6389 🔍

Mint

Abdera 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 336-311 BC
Hellenistic Period  🔍

Obverse

Legend

ΑΒΔΗΡΙΤΕΩΝ

Design

Griffin lying left, right forepaw raised.
go to the NLP result of this description

Reverse

Legend

ΕΠΙ ΟΜΗΡΟΥ

Design

Laureate head of Apollo, right.
go to the NLP result of this description

Persons

Magistrate

Homeros 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

Double siglos (tetradrachm) 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Weight

10.17 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_6_060o/r

Citation

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 293, nr. 545 c, pl. 24  (c. 365/350-350/345 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. 91, nr. 154  (c. 390-352 BC)  ❐

Literature

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 387-388, nr. 2-3  ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 293, nr. 545, pl. 24 (c. 365/350-350/345 BC)   ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 387-388, nr. 2-3  ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 91, nr. 154 (c. 390-352 BC)   ❐

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