cn coin 9425

Connected to Type

CN Type 4647 🔍

Mint

Abdera 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 475-450 BC
Classical Period  🔍

Obverse

Legend

Δ-ΕΟ

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 square with dotted surfaces.
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Persons

Magistrate

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Metrology

Denomination

Tetarte (drachm) 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

15.1 mm

Weight

3.25 g

Owner

Museum August Kestner, Hannover, Hannover, de  ❐
Owner Inventory No.: 1938.265

Literature

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 107-111  ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 106, pl. 6  ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 106-108, nr. 93-97, pl. 6 (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 9425, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_9425 [Last downloaded: 2026/01/15]

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