cn coin 6419

Connected to Type

CN Type 4623 🔍

Mint

Abdera 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 475-450 BC
Classical Period  🔍

Obverse

Legend

ΗΓΗ

Design

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

Design

Quadripartite incuse square, divided by two crossed lines.
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Persons

Magistrate

Hege- 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

Tetarte (drachm) 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

14 mm

Weight

3.57 g

Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de  ❐
Owner Inventory No.: 18237513
Provenience: 1906 Löbbecke - Vorbesitzer Löbbecke

Citation

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 51-52, nr. 37,3  ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 101, nr. 75b  ❐

Literature

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 107-111  ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 100-101, nr. 74-76, pl. 5 (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. 108-109  ❐

Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 179-182  ❐

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