cn coin 5623

Connected to Type

CN Type 4632 🔍

Mint

Abdera 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 475-450 BC
Classical Period  🔍

Obverse

Legend

Ε-ΠΙ - ΙΑ

Design

Griffin leaping left, forepart and forpaws raised, with feathered wings, tail curling and open beak with tongue protruding; below, cylix.
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Symbol

kylix (position: at the bottom left)

Reverse

Design

Quadripartite incuse square with uneven surfaces.
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Persons

Magistrate

Ia- 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

Stater (tetradrachm) 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

27 mm

Weight

14.93 g

Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de  ❐
Owner Inventory No.: 18237411
Provenience: 1866/28773

Citation

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 101, nr. 25  ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 48, nr. 24,1  ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 102, nr. 80 c  ❐

Literature

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 107-111  ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 102-103, nr. 80, pl. 5 (492-473/470 BC.)   ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 107-110  ❐

Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 179-182  ❐

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