cn coin 47884

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.
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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

2.81 g

Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,
Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.
Provenience: Gorny&Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung, Auktion 191, 11./12. 10. 2010, lot 1156

Literature

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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cn coin 47884, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_47884 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/07]

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