cn coin 7658

Connected to Type

CN Type 5226 🔍

Mint

Abdera 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 475-450 BC
Classical Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

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

Design

Quadripartite incuse punch.
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Metrology

Denomination

Obol 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

Max: 9.7 mm / Min: 8.5 mm

Weight

0.51 g

Owner

BBAW, Berlin, de  ❐
Provenience: SHH 1768; Herakles Numismatics, Perry Siegel (25.07.2002)

Literature

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 312-314  ❐

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

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 114, nr. 119-122, pl. 8 (492-473/470 BC.)   ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 107-110  ❐

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

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cn coin 7658, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_7658 [Last downloaded: 2025/03/21]

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