cn coin 5321

Connected to Type

CN Type 5250 🔍

Mint

Abdera 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 450-425 BC
Classical Period  🔍

Obverse

Die

Abd_135_A113 🔍

Design

Griffin seated left, right forepaw raised, with palmette-like curved upwards wings, tail curling and open beak; below right forepaw, cantharus. Ground line. Border of dots.
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Reverse

Die

Abd_135_P111 🔍

Legend

ΕΠΙ ΣΜΟΡΔΟΤΟΡΜ ΚΑΛ

Design

Quadripartite and raised linear square; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate

Smordos Hermokalleos##Smordotormos/Kal. 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

Stater (tetradrachm) 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

27 mm

Weight

14.48 g

Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,
Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.
Provenience: Münzen und Medaillen AG, Auktion 6, 1946, 580; Künker, Auktion 11.03.2013, 278; Künker 226, 08.10.2012, lot 278.

Citation

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 125, nr. 135c  ❐

Münzen und Medaillen AG, Auktion 6, Basel 1946, Basel 1946 nr. 580  ❐

Künker, Auktion 226 - Münzen aus der Welt der Antike. Die Sammlung Kochs, Bonn, u. a. 11.-16. März 2013, 2013 nr. 278  ❐

Literature

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 125-126, nr. 134-138, pl. 8-9 (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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