cn coin 53048

Connected to Type

CN Type 5908 🔍

Mint

Abdera 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 360-350 BC
Classical Period  🔍

Obverse

Legend

ΑΒΔΗ

Design

Griffin lying left, right forepaw raised.
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Reverse

Legend

ΕΠΙ ΤΗΛΕΜΑΧΟ

Design

Nude Heracles advancing right, holding club in right hand and bow and lion skin in left hand. All within a shallow incuse square.
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Symbol

shell (position: on the right)

Persons

Magistrate

Telemachos 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

Double siglos (tetradrachm) 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Weight

11.16 g

Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,
Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.
Provenience: Peus 353 (29.10.1997) 102 = Peus 361 (03.11.1999) 62.

Literature

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 251-252, nr. 402-404, pl. 19 (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. 84, nr. 137, pl. 3, pic. 7 (c. 400-390 BC)   ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 127  ❐

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cn coin 53048, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_53048 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/11]

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