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cn coin 11031

Connected to Type

CN Type 5289 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 450-425 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Griffin seated left, right forepaw raised.
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Reverse
Design
Forepart of a bull, right; within incuse square.
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Metrology
Denomination
hemidrachm (triobol) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
1.53 g
Owner

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

Provenience: de Luynes 1747

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: ABD_2L_2_080o/r

Citation

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 140, nr. 189 a  (c. 473/470-449/448 BC.)  ❐

Literature

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 140, nr. 188-189, pl. 12 (c. 473/470-449/448 BC.)  ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 111-117 ❐

Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 179-182 ❐

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cn coin 11031, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_11031 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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