Abdera
CN_21162

Connected to Type

cn.Abdera.5831

Mint

Abdera

Date

c. 395-360 BC

Period

Classical Period

Denomination

stater

Standard

Aeginetan

Legend

Obverse

ΑΒΔΗ

Reverse

ΔΟΜ

Design

Obverse

Griffin seated left, with feathered wings, second wing to be seen in background, with tail curling and closed beak; to left, fly. Border of dots.

Reverse

Nude Heracles seated left on rock, head and torso facing, rock covered with a lion skin, holding club in his right hand that rests on his right knee and resting his left elbow on his thigh, traces of drapery on right thigh; all within a shallow incuse square.

Symbol

Obverse

cicada (Position: on the left)

Coinage

Type

city

Persons

Magistrate

Philas

Material

silver

Diameter Max

23 mm

Diameter Min

23 mm

Weight

12.79 g

Axis

5

Owner

Martin von Wagner Museum, Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, DE

Owner Inventory No.

Ka 1258 = H 6625

Provenience

Ex Coll. Herbert Wellhöfer

Literature

May, The coinage of Abdera: (540 - 345 B. C.)(p. 396)Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.)(p. 123)

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Abdera CN_21162, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_21162 [Last downloaded: 2021/02/28]

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