cn coin 63948

Connected to Type

CN Type 7025 🔍

Mint

Abdera 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 250-150 BC
Hellenistic Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Male head with diadem, winged, right.
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Reverse

Legend

ΑΒΔΗΡΙΤΩΝ

Design

Griffin lying left, right forepaw raised.
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Symbol

eight-rayed star (position: on the left)

Metrology

Denomination

Chalkous 🔍 ❐

Material

bronze  🔍 ❐

Diameter

18.9 mm

Weight

5.26 g

Axis

12

Owner

Coll. H.I., , de

Literature

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 113-114, nr. 237 (c. 240-201 BC, Ptolemaios III.-V.?)   ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 295-304, nr. 708-810 (2nd half of 3rd c. to 1rst half of 2nd c. BC, chalkous)   ❐

Lorber, Coins of the Ptolemaic Empire. Part I: Ptolemy I through Ptolemy IV, volume 1-2, New York 2018 p. 98, nr. B408 (Head on obverse idetified as Ptolemaios III. and therefor dated 246-222 BC.)   ❐

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cn coin 63948, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_63948 [Last downloaded: 2025/07/12]

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