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cn coin 21241

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CN Type 4478 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 500-475 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑΡΧ
Design
Griffin seated left, right forepaw raised.
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Reverse
Design
Quadripartite incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Arch- 🔍  

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

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: ABD_2L_1_018o

Citation

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 80, nr. 50, pl. 4  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 228, annot. No. 1a  ❐

Literature

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 104-105 ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 80, nr. 50-51 ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 80, nr. 51-51, pl. 4 (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. 104-105 ❐

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

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cn coin 21241, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_21241 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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