cn coin 7615

Connected to Type

CN Type 4433 🔍

Mint

Abdera 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 520-500 BC
Archaic Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Griffin seated left, right forepaw raised, with palmette-like curved upwards wings, tail curling and open beak with tongue protruding. Dotted line.
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Reverse

Design

Quadripartite incuse punch.
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Metrology

Denomination

Obol 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

Max: 8.8 mm / Min: 8 mm

Weight

0.57 g

Owner

BBAW, Berlin, de  ❐
Provenience: SHH 252

Literature

Schwabacher, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : the Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Copenhagen 1942 nr. 312-314  ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 nr. 27  ❐

Sear, Greek Coins and their Values, London 1994 p. 137, nr. 1338  ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 66, nr. 27, pl. 2 (540/535-520/515 BC.)   ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 148 (Date.)   ❐

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

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cn coin 7615, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_7615 [Last downloaded: 2024/10/12]

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