original - License: Public Domain Mark 1.0 - Photographer: Lutz-Jürgen Lübke (Lübke & Wiedemann) ❐

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cn coin 6479

Obverse

Design: Griffin seated left, with feathered wings, second wing to be seen in background, with tail curling and closed beak; to left, fly. Border of dots.
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Reverse

Design: Nude Heracles seated left on rock, head and torso facing, rock covered with a lion skin, holding club in his right hand that rests on his right knee and resting his left elbow on his thigh, traces of drapery on right thigh; all within a shallow incuse square.
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Owner: Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐
Owner Inventory No.: 18241781
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. 72, nr. 105,2 ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 234-235, nr. 393, annot. 1 zur Gruppe CX erwähnt, Beizeichen Vs. als Zikade gedeutet ❐

Literature: Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 119-126 ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 234-235, nr. 391-397/1, pl. 19 (c. 411/410-386/385 BC, aeginetic standard) ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 72, nr. 105, pl. 11, pic. 40 (c. 425-400 BC, tetradrachm) ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 119-126 ❐

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