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cn coin 5586

Connected to Type
CN Type 4431 🔍
Mint
Abdera 🔍
Region: Thrace
Typology
Date
c. 520-500 BC
Archaic Period  🔍
Obverse
Die
Abd_024_A21 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse Α
Design
Griffin seated left, right forepaw raised, with palmette-like curved upwards wings, tail curling and open beak with tongue protruding; six dots spread in field.
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Reverse
Die
Abd_024_P23 🔍
Design
Quadripartite incuse punch.
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Metrology
Denomination
Distater (octadrachm) 🔍
Material
silver  🔍
Diameter
27 mm
Weight
29.45 g
Owner
Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de  
Owner Inventory No.: 18232882
Provenience: 1900 Imhoof-Blumer
Citation
Imhoof-Blumer, Monnaies grecques, Paris 1883 p. 38, nr. 1 
Fritze, Die autonomen Münzen von Abdera. Eine chronologische Studie 3, 1909 p. 11 ff., nr. 2, pl. 3, pic. 22 
Svoronos, L'Hellénisme primitif de la Macédoine prouvé par la numismatique et l'or du Pangée, Paris 1919 p. 63, nr. 5, pl. 15, pic. 5 
Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 122, nr. f, pl. 1, pic. 120,1 
May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 65, nr. 24 a 
Literature
Imhoof-Blumer, Monnaies grecques, Paris 1883 p. 38, nr. 1  
Fritze, Die autonomen Münzen von Abdera. Eine chronologische Studie 3, 1909 p. 11 ff., nr. 2, pl. 3, pic. 22  
Svoronos, L'Hellénisme primitif de la Macédoine prouvé par la numismatique et l'or du Pangée, Paris 1919 p. 63, nr. 5, pl. 15, pic. 5  
Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 122, nr. f, pl. 1, pic. 120,1  
May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 65, nr. 24-25, pl. 2 (540/535-520/515 BC.)   
Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 148 (Date.)   
Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 179-182  
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cn coin 5586, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_5586 [Last downloaded: 2025/02/09]
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