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cn coin 10942

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CN Type 5908 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 360-350 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑΒΔΗ
Design
Griffin lying left, right forepaw raised.
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Reverse
Legend
ΕΠΙ ΤΗΛΕΜΑΧΟ
Design
Nude Heracles advancing right, holding club in right hand and bow and lion skin in left hand. All within a shallow incuse square.
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Symbol
shell (position: on the right)
Persons

Magistrate: Telemachos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Double siglos (tetradrachm) 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
11.31 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: M 6981

Provenience: Fonds général 38

Citation

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 252, nr. 402 a, pl. 19  (c. 386/385-375 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. 84, nr. 137.3  (c. 400-390 BC)  ❐

Literature

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 251-252, nr. 402-404, pl. 19 (c. 386/385-375 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. 84, nr. 137, pl. 3, pic. 7 (c. 400-390 BC)  ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 127 ❐

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cn coin 10942, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_10942 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/25]

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