cn coin 6658

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.
go to the NLP result of this description

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

19 mm

Weight

4.66 g

Axis

11

Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de  ❐
Owner Inventory No.: 18246107
Provenience: 1928 Bernhard-Imhoof - Vorbesitzer Bernhard-Imhoof

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin [de] ❐
Plaster Cast No: ABD_2L_8_042o/r

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

Imhoof-Blumer, Zur griechischen und römischen Münzkunde, Genf 1908 p. 252, pl. 9, pic. 9  ❐

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. 237,14a, pl. 3, pic. 27  ❐

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  ❐

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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