cn coin 51699

Connected to Type

CN Type 5253 🔍

Mint

Abdera 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 450-425 BC
Classical Period  🔍

Obverse

Legend

ΚΑΛΛΙΔΑΜΑΣ

Design

Griffin seated left on tunny, left, right forepaw raised.
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Symbol

tunny (position: below)

Reverse

Legend

ΑΒΔΗΡΙΤΕΩΝ

Design

Inscription surrounding a quadripartite linear square; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate

Kallidamas 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

Stater (tetradrachm) 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Weight

14.97 g

Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,
Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.
Provenience: The New York Sale eA 27 (04.01.2012) lot 220 = Ex Trist Collection Ex Frank Sherman Benson Collection, Sotheby’s, London, 3 - 11 February 1909, lot 448 Ex H. Gordon Bois, Esq. Collection, Sotheby’s, London, 7 July 1947, lot 174 Ex Monnaies et Médailles SA, Auction 64, Basel, 30 January 1984, lot 61

Literature

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 127-130, nr. 142-150 (c. 473/470-449/448 BC.)   ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 111-119  ❐

Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 179-182  ❐

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cn coin 51699, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_51699 [Last downloaded: 2025/04/26]

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