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cn coin 21370

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CN Type 4623 🔍

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Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 475-450 BC

Classical Period 🔍

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

Magistrate: Hege- 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Tetarte (drachm) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
3.72 g
Owner

Unknown, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Naville

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: ABD_2L_1_039o/r

Citation

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 100-101, nr. 74 d  (492-473/470 BC.)  ❐

Naville & Cie, Catalogue of public auction VII (23-24.06.1924). Collection Clarence S. Bement de Philadelphia (U.S.A.). Monnaies grecques antiques en or et en argent. Seconde partie: Attique a Mauritanie VII, 1924 p. 1070, annot. ?  ❐

Literature

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 108-109 ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 100-101, nr. 74-76, pl. 5 (492-473/470 BC.)  ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 108-109 ❐

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

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cn coin 21370, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_21370 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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