Legend
Mint
Hoard
Findspot

cn coin 10910

Connected to Type

CN Type 4400 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 520-500 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Griffin seated left, right forepaw raised.
go to the NLP result of this description
Symbol
lotus flower (position: at the bottom left)
Reverse
Design
Quadripartite incuse square.
go to the NLP result of this description
Metrology
Denomination
Distater (octadrachm) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
29.28 g
Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Owner Inventory No.: E 642

Provenience: Fonds général 4

Citation

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 60, nr. 6 a  ❐

Literature

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. 60, nr. 6, pl. 1 (540/530-520/515 BC, octadrachme, abderitan standard)  ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 121, nr. b, pl. 120, pic. 3 ❐

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

Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 179-182 (red. chian standard)  ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 10910, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_10910 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

License:

This record is licensed under: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike

Contact

Comments or information about this coin? Please email us