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cn coin 5585

Connected to Type
CN Type 4455 🔍
Mint
Abdera 🔍
Region: Thrace
Typology
Date
c. 500-475 BC
Archaic Period  🔍
Obverse
Die
Abd_032_A27 🔍
Design
Griffin seated left, right forepaw raised, with plain curved wings, tail curling and open beak with tongue protruding; one pellet.
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Reverse
Die
Abd_032_P31 🔍
Design
Quadripartite incuse punch.
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Metrology
Denomination
Distater (octadrachm) 🔍
Material
silver  🔍
Diameter
Max: 29 mm / Min: 25 mm
Weight
29.50 g
Owner
Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de  
Owner Inventory No.: 18232874
Provenience: 1906 Löbbecke
Citation
May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 74, nr. 32a 
Fritze, Die autonomen Münzen von Abdera. Eine chronologische Studie 3, 1909 p. 2, nr. I b, pl. 1, pic. 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. 45, nr. 12,1, pl. 1, pic. 4 
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. 74, nr. 31-32, pl. 2 (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  
Fritze, Die autonomen Münzen von Abdera. Eine chronologische Studie 3, 1909 p. 2, nr. I b, pl. 1, pic. 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. 45, nr. 12,1, pl. 1, pic. 4  
Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 179-182  
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cn coin 5585, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_5585 [Last downloaded: 2025/02/09]
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