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cn coin 21162

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CN Type 5831 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 395-360 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
Legend obverse ΑΒΔΗ
Design
Griffin seated left, with feathered wings, second wing to be seen in background, with tail curling and closed beak; to left, fly. Border of dots.
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Symbol
cicada (position: on the left)
Reverse
Legend
[...]ΔΟΣ
Design
Nude Heracles seated left on rock, head and torso facing, rock covered with a lion skin, holding club in his right hand that rests on his right knee and resting his left elbow on his thigh, traces of drapery on right thigh; all within a shallow incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Philas 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
stater 🔍  
Standard: Aeginetan
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
23 mm
Weight
12.79 g
Axis
5
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: Ka 1258 = H 6625

Provenience: Ex Coll. Herbert Wellhöfer

Literature

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 396 ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 123 ❐

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 21162, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_21162 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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