cn coin 5905

Connected to Type

CN Type 4391 🔍

Mint

Abdera 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 520-500 BC
Archaic Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

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

Design

Quadripartite incuse punch.
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Metrology

Denomination

Stater (tetradrachm) 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

22 mm

Weight

14.47 g

Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de  ❐
Owner Inventory No.: 18247106
Provenience: 1900 Imhoof-Blumer

Citation

Imhoof-Blumer, Monnaies grecques, Paris 1883 p. 38, nr. 2  ❐

Fritze, Die autonomen Münzen von Abdera. Eine chronologische Studie 3, 1909 p. 11, nr. 1 γ, pl. 3, pic. 26  ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 121, nr. c 1, pic. 7  ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 60, nr. 4 b  ❐

Literature

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

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 60-61, nr. 4-4/I, 8, pl. 1 (540/535-520/515 BC, tetradrachme, abderitan 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  ❐

Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 179-181 (red. chian standard)   ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 121, nr. c, pl. 120, pic. 7  ❐

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