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cn coin 10973

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CN Type 6090 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 346/345-336 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΕΠΙ ΦΑΝΕΩ
Design
Griffin leaping left.
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Reverse
Legend
ΑΒΔΗΡΙΤΕΩΝ
Design
Laureate head of Apollo, right; within linear square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Phanes 🔍  

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

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

Provenience: Fonds général 78

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. 87, nr. 143.11  ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 281, nr. 504 a  ❐

Literature

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 280-281, nr. 495-504, pl. 23 (c. 346/345-336 BC)  ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 128-134 ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 87, nr. 143 (c. 400-390 BC)  ❐

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cn coin 10973, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_10973 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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