cn coin 5902

Connected to Type

CN Type 4385 🔍

Mint

Abdera 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 520-500 BC
Archaic Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Griffin standing left, right forepaw raised, with plain curved wings, tail curling and open beak.
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Reverse

Design

Quadripartite incuse punch.
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Metrology

Denomination

Stater (tetradrachm) 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

21 mm

Weight

14.96 g

Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de  ❐
Owner Inventory No.: 18247075
Provenience: 1902/673

Findspot

Demanhur, eg [eg] ❐

Hoard

IGCH 1637  ❐

Citation

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 59, nr. 2 a, pl. 1  ❐

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. e, pic. 6  ❐

Fritze, Die autonomen Münzen von Abdera. Eine chronologische Studie 3, 1909 p. 11, nr. 2, pl. 3, pic. 19  ❐

Dressel and Regling, Zwei ägyptische Funde altgriechischer Silbermünzen 37, 1927 p. 91 f., nr. 152, pl. 3  ❐

Literature

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 148  ❐

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. e, pic. 6  ❐

Fritze, Die autonomen Münzen von Abdera. Eine chronologische Studie 3, 1909 p. 11, nr. 2, pl. 3, pic. 19  ❐

Dressel and Regling, Zwei ägyptische Funde altgriechischer Silbermünzen 37, 1927 p. 91 f., nr. 152, pl. 3  ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 59, nr. 1-2, pl. 1 (540/535-520/515 BC, tetradrachm, Abderitan standard)   ❐

Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 179-182 (red. chian standard)   ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 97-103. 148  ❐

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