cn coin 11046

Forgery

period: modern

Identified as a forgery in the Paris collection.

Connected to types 5831 🔍

  • side: both
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Connected to Type

CN Type 5831 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 395-360 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑΒΔΗ
Design
Symbol
cicada (position: on the left)
Reverse
Legend
ΕΠΙ ΦΙΛΑΔΟΣ
Design
Nude Heracles seated left on rock, head facing, rock covered with a lion skin, holding club in his right hand; all within a shallow incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Philas 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
stater 🔍  
Standard: Aeginetan
Material
Weight
12.75 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 2003.121

Provenience: Faux; Don Bensouilah

Public Commentary

moderne Fälschung; modern forgery

Literature

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 234-235. 285, nr. 391-397/1

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 234-235, nr. 391-397/1, pl. 19 (c. 411/410-386/385 BC, aeginetic standard) 

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 72, nr. 105, pl. 11, pic. 40 (c. 425-400 BC, tetradrachm) 

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 119-126

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cn coin 11046, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_11046 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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