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cn coin 5584

Connected to Type
CN Type 4469 🔍
Mint
Abdera 🔍
Region: Thrace
Typology
Date
c. 500-475 BC
Archaic Period  🔍
Obverse
Die
Abd_045_A38 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΕΚ<ΑΤ>
Design
Griffin seated left, right forepaw raised, with plain curved wings, tail curling and open beak with tongue protruding.
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Reverse
Die
Abd_045_P42 🔍
Design
Quadripartite incuse square with uneven surfaces.
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Persons
Magistrate
Hekat- 🔍
Metrology
Denomination
Distater (octadrachm) 🔍
Material
silver  🔍
Diameter
29 mm
Weight
29.94 g
Owner
Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de  
Owner Inventory No.: 18232873
Provenience: 1875 Prokesch-Osten
Citation
May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 78, nr. 45, pl. 4 
Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 44, nr. 4 
Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 198, nr. 2 
Prokesch-Osten, Autonome thrakische Münzen der Sammlung Prokesch-Osten 4, 1872 p. 186, nr. 1 
Prokesch-Osten, Description de quelques Médailles grecques, 1860 p. 266, pl. 12, pic. 1 
Literature
Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 103-107  
May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 78, nr. 45, pl. 4 (520/515-492 BC.)   
Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 103-107  
Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 179-182  
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cn coin 5584, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_5584 [Last downloaded: 2025/02/19]
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