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cn coin 21231

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CN Type 4463 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 500-475 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΖΑ
Design
Griffin seated left, right forepaw raised.
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Symbol
rosette (position: at the bottom left)
Reverse
Design
Quadripartite incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Za- 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Distater (octadrachm) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
29.54 g
Owner

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Boston Catalogue 744

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: ABD_2L_1_011o/r

Citation

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 76, nr. 40a, pl. 3  ❐

Regling, Die griechischen Münzen der Sammlung Warren, Berlin 1906 nr. 433  ❐

Literature

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 103-107 ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 76, nr. 40, pl. 3 (520/515-492 BC.)  ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 103-107 ❐

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

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cn coin 21231, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_21231 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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