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cn coin 10913

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CN Type 4454 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

500-475 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΠΕΡΙ
Design
Griffin seated left, right forepaw raised, with plain curved wings, tail curling and open beak. Ground line. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Design
Quadripartite incuse punch.
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Persons

Magistrate: Peri- 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Distater (octadrachm) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
28.85 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: M 1694

Provenience: Fonds général 3

Citation

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 73-74, nr. 30 a, pl. 2  (520/515-492 BC.)  ❐

Literature

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 105. 148 ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 73-74, nr. 29-30, pl. 2 (520/515-492 BC.)  ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 105. 148 ❐

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

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cn coin 10913, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_10913 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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