cn coin 48792

Connected to Type

CN Type 5780 🔍

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Mint

Abdera 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 395-360 BC
Classical Period  🔍

Obverse

Legend

ΑΒ(Δ)

Design

Griffin leaping left.

Reverse

Legend

ΕΠΙ ΠΡΩΤΕΩ

Design

Three ears of corn, within linear square.

Persons

Magistrate

Protes (III) 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

Drachm (tetrobol) 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Weight

2.83 g

Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,
Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.
Provenience: Gorny&Mosch, Auktion 95, 9.3.1999, lot 156

Literature

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 228-231, nr. 352-374, pl. 18 ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 119-126 ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 78, nr. 124, pl. 2, pic. 8 ❐

Hoover, Handbook of coins of Macedon and its neighbors. Part II: Thrace, Skythia, and Taurike: sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, Pa. London 2017 p. 24, nr. 1218 ❐

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cn coin 48792, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_48792 [Last downloaded: 2023/05/30]

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