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cn coin 10922

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CN Type 5555 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 415-395 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Griffin seated left, right forepaw raised.
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Reverse
Legend
ΕΠΙ ΔΗΜΟΚΡΙΤΟ
Design
Lyre with seven strings; within a linear square; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Demokritos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
13.82 g
Owner

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

Provenience: Fonds général 1397

Citation

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 172, nr. 234 b  (c. 439/437-411/410 BC.)  ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 63, nr. 73.4  ❐

Literature

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 172-173, nr. 234-237, pl. 14 (c. 439/437-411/410 BC, reduced Thraco-Macedonian 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. 63, nr. 73 ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 117-118 ❐

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cn coin 10922, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_10922 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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