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cn coin 5626

Obverse

Design: Griffin seated left, right forepaw raised, with palmette-like curved upwards wings, tail curling and open beak; below right forepaw, bearded, pot-bellied Silenus dancing, head left, left leg and raising right arm. Border of dots.
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Reverse

Design: Quadripartite incuse square with dotted surfaces.
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Metrology

Owner: Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐
Owner Inventory No.: 18237442
Provenience: 1875 Prokesch-Osten

Citation: Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 100, nr. 14, pl. 3, pic. 28 ❐

Prokesch-Osten, Autonome thrakische Münzen der Sammlung Prokesch-Osten 4, 1872 p. 186, nr. 5, pl. 8, 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. 49, nr. 29,1 ❐

Regling, Die antike Münze als Kunstwerk, Berlin 1924 nr. 228, pl. 9 ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 111, nr. 109 a, pl. 7 ❐

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. 110-111, nr. 108-111, pl. 7 (c. 492-473470 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 ❐

Cite this record:: cn coin 5626, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_5626 [Last downloaded: 2025/01/23]

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