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cn coin 21161

Connected to Type

CN Type 6409 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 336-311 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
Legend obverse ΑΒΔΗ/ΡΙΤΕΩΝ
Design
Griffin lying left, right forepaw raised, with feathered wings, tail under hindlegs and closed beak. Ground line.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠΙ - ΠΥΘΟΔΩΡΟ
Design
Laureate head of Apollo, right.
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Persons

Magistrate: Pythodoros (Abdera) 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Double siglos (tetradrachm) 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
23 mm
Weight
10.29 g
Axis
5
Owner

Martin von Wagner Museum, Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: Ka 1257 = H 6624

Provenience: Ex Coll. Herbert Wellhöfer. = Peus Auction 380, lot 302, 03.11.2004

Citation

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 nr. 552b  ❐

Literature

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 nr. 23 ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 293, nr. 552, pl. 24 (c. 365/350-350/345 BC)  ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 390, nr. 23 ❐

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cn coin 21161, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_21161 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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