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cn coin 10962

Connected to Type

CN Type 6407 🔍

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 ΠΥΘΟΚΛΕΟΣ
Design
Laureate head of Apollo, right; within linear square.
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Symbol
Bee (position: at the bottom left)
Persons

Magistrate: Pythokles 🔍  

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

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

Provenience: Fonds général 67

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: ABD_2L_6_151o/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. 96, nr. 171.6  ❐

Literature

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 293, nr. 550 ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 293, nr. 550, pl. 24 ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 394, nr. 56-57 ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 96, nr. 171 ❐

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cn coin 10962, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_10962 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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