cn coin 29486

Connected to Type

CN Type 5587 🔍

Mint

Abdera 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 395-360 BC
Classical Period  🔍

Obverse

Legend

ΑΒΔΗΡΙΤΕΩΝ

Design

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

Reverse

Legend

ΕΠ ΟΡΧΑΜΟ

Design

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

Persons

Magistrate

Orchamos 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

Dichalkon 🔍 ❐

Material

bronze  🔍 ❐

Weight

3.71 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_7_007o/r

Citation

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 207-208, nr. 267 b, pl. 15  (c. 411/410-386/385 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. 98, nr. 179,2  ❐

Literature

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 180, nr. 16-21 (Dichalkon)   ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 207-208, nr. 265-267, pl. 15 (c. 411/410-386/385 BC.)   ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 180, nr. 16-21 (Dichalkon)   ❐

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cn coin 29486, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_29486 [Last downloaded: 2025/06/20]

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