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

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cn coin 6657

Obverse

Design: Diademed male head, right. Border of dots.
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Reverse

Design: Griffin lying left, right forepaw raised, with feathered wings, tail curling and closed beak; to left, star with eight rays. Border of dots.
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Metrology

Owner: Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐
Owner Inventory No.: 18246105
Provenience: 1906 Löbbecke - Vorbesitzer Löbbecke

Public Commentary: http://numismatics.org/pco/id/cpe.1_2.B408 Dort Vorderseitenkopf als Ptolemaios III. identifiziert und 246-222 v. Chr. datiert. There head on obverse identified as Ptolemaios III. and dated 246-222 BC.

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. 114, nr. 237,13 ❐

Literature: Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 295-298, nr. 708-746 ❐

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) ❐

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.?) ❐

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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