cn coin 50534

Connected to Type

CN Type 6786 🔍

Mint

Abdera 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 300-250 BC
Hellenistic Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Laureate head of Apollo, right.
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Reverse

Legend

ΑΒΔΗΡΙΤΩΝ ΕΠ(Ι,Ε) ΙΣΑΓΟΡΟΥ

Design

Griffin lying left.
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Persons

Magistrate

Isagoras 🔍

Metrology

Denomination

Obol 🔍 ❐

Material

bronze  🔍 ❐

Diameter

23 mm

Weight

6.94 g

Axis

12

Owner

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us  ❐
Owner Inventory No.: 84.580
Provenience: Acquired in the division of coins following the excavations at Assos. Some coins in the group were said to have been "purchased from natives of the surrounding district." No specific findspot is known for this coin. 1884: gift of the Archaeological Institute of America to the Museum of Fine Arts

Citation

Bell, Coins from Assos, London-Cambridge, MA-Leipzig 1902 p. 298, nr. 5  ❐

Literature

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 256-259, nr. 454-471 (1st half of the 3rd c. 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. 115, nr. 239  ❐

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