cn coin 52997

Connected to Type

CN Type 5724 🔍

Mint

Abdera 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 395-360 BC
Classical Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Griffin leaping left on ear of corn.
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Reverse

Legend

ΠΡΩΤΗΣ

Design

Laureate head of Apollo, left, within linear square.
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Symbol

ivy leaf (position: at the bottom left)

Persons

Magistrate

Protes (II) 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

Drachm (tetrobol) 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Weight

2.81 g

Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,
Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.
Provenience: Künker 89 (08.03.2004) 1141.

Literature

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 223, nr. 330, pl. 17 (c. 411/410-386/385 BC, persic standard)   ❐

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. 122 (c. 425-400 BC, drachm)   ❐

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cn coin 52997, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_52997 [Last downloaded: 2025/11/15]

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