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cn coin 10937

Connected to Type

CN Type 5827 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 395-360 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑΒΔ(Η)
Design
Griffin leaping left.
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Reverse
Legend
ΝΥΜΦΑΓΟΡΗΣ
Design
Dolphin swimming diogonally left and down in dotted square; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Nymphagores 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Drachm (tetrobol) 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
2.64 g
Owner

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

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Fonds général 34

Citation

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 233, nr. 387 a  (c. 411/410-386/385 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. 77, nr. 118.10  (c. 425-400 BC, drachm)  ❐

Literature

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 231-234, nr. 376-390, pl. 19 (c. 411/410-386/385 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. 77, nr. 118 (c. 425-400 BC, drachm)  ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 119-126 ❐

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cn coin 10937, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_10937 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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