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cn coin 10958

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CN Type 6487 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 336-311 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑΒΔΗΡΙΤΕΩΝ
Design
Griffin lying left, right forepaw raised.
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Reverse
Legend
ΕΠΙ ΕΚΑΤΩΝΥΜΟ
Design
Laureate head of Apollo, right; within linear square.
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Symbol
star (position: on the right)
Persons

Magistrate: Hekatonymos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Hemisiglos (drachm) 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
2.54 g
Owner

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

Provenience: Fonds général 61

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: ABD_2L_6_093o/r

Citation

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 93, nr. 164.10  (\"the copy now in Paris is not identical with Mionnet\'s paste\")  ❐

Literature

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 292, nr. 540, pl. 24 ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 395-396, nr. 67-69 (336-311 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. 93, nr. 164 ❐

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cn coin 10958, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_10958 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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