cn coin 5907

Connected to Type

CN Type 4428 🔍

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

Hemistater (didrachm) 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

Max: 19 mm / Min: 16 mm

Weight

7.38 g

Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de  ❐
Owner Inventory No.: 18247108
Provenience: 1899/882

Findspot

Sakhā, EG [EG] ❐

Hoard

IGCH 1639  ❐

Citation

Fritze, Die autonomen Münzen von Abdera. Eine chronologische Studie 3, 1909 p. 11, nr. 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. 123, nr. k 1  ❐

Dressel and Regling, Zwei ägyptische Funde altgriechischer Silbermünzen 37, 1927 p. 238 f., nr. 28  ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 64, nr. 19 a, pl. 2  ❐

Literature

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

Fritze, Die autonomen Münzen von Abdera. Eine chronologische Studie 3, 1909 p. 11, nr. 5 v, pl. 3, pic. 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. 123, nr. k, pic. 10  ❐

Dressel and Regling, Zwei ägyptische Funde altgriechischer Silbermünzen 37, 1927 p. 237 f., nr. 27, pl. 8, pic. 3  ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 64, nr. 18-19, pl. 2 (540/535-520/515 BC, didrachm, abderitan standard)   ❐

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

Thompson et al., An inventory of Greek coin hoards, New York 1973 nr. 1639  ❐

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

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