cn coin 5909

Connected to Type

CN Type 5226 🔍

Mint

Abdera 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 475-450 BC
Classical Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Griffin seated left, right forepaw raised, with palmette-like curved upwards wings, tail curling and open beak with tongue protruding.
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Reverse

Design

Quadripartite incuse punch.
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Metrology

Denomination

Obol 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

10 mm

Weight

0.52 g

Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de  ❐
Owner Inventory No.: 18247110
Provenience: 1875 Prokesch-Osten

Citation

Prokesch-Osten, Autonome thrakische Münzen der Sammlung Prokesch-Osten 4, 1872 p. 186, nr. 3  ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 124, nr. o 1  ❐

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 100, nr. 21  ❐

Literature

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 114, nr. 119-122  ❐

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. 114, nr. 119-122, pl. 8 (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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