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cn coin 6453

Connected to Type
CN Type 5250 🔍
Mint
Abdera 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology
Date
c. 450-425 BC
Classical Period  🔍
Obverse
Die
Abd_135_A113 🔍
Design
Griffin seated left, right forepaw raised, with palmette-like curved upwards wings, tail curling and open beak; below right forepaw, cantharus. Ground line. Border of dots.
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Symbol
kantharos (position: at the bottom left)
Reverse
Die
Abd_135_P111 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠΙ ΣΜΟΡΔΟΤΟΡΜ ΚΑΛ
Design
Quadripartite and raised linear square; all within incuse square.
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Persons
Magistrate
Smordos Hermokalleos##Smordotormos/Kal. 🔍 ❐
Metrology
Denomination
Stater (tetradrachm) 🔍 ❐
Material
silver  🔍 ❐
Diameter
27 mm
Weight
15.07 g
Axis
9
Owner
Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de  ❐
Owner Inventory No.: 18241644
Provenience: 1875 Prokesch-Osten - Vorbesitzer Prokesch von Osten
Reproduction Owner
BBAW, Berlin [de] ❐
Citation
Prokesch-Osten, Autonome thrakische Münzen der Sammlung Prokesch-Osten 4, 1872 p. 187, nr. 11, pl. 8, pic. 6  ❐
Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 101, nr. 32  ❐
Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 58, nr. 58,3  ❐
May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 126, nr. 138c  ❐
Literature
Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 111-117  ❐
May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 125-126, nr. 134-138, pl. 8-9 (c. 473/470-449/448 BC.)   ❐
Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 111-119  ❐
Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 179-182  ❐
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cn coin 6453, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6453 [Last downloaded: 2025/05/18]
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