cn coin 5959

Connected to Type

CN Type 5712 🔍

Mint

Abdera 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 395-360 BC
Classical 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

Legend

ΕΠΙ ΜΟΛ-ΠΑΓΟΡΕΩ

Design

Girl dancing left, turning, wearing a short drifting chiton and a polos, raising her right arm, all within a shallow incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate

Molpagores (I) 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

stater 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

22.6 mm

Weight

11.62 g

Axis

3

Owner

Coll. H.I., , de

Literature

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 219, nr. 314-315  ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 219, nr. 314-315, pl. 17 (c. 411/410-386/385 BC, aeginetic standard)   ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 123 (377-374 BC)   ❐

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cn coin 5959, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_5959 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/07]

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