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cn coin 21384

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CN Type 4640 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 475-450 BC

Classical Period 🔍

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

Magistrate: Deo... 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Stater (tetradrachm) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
15.18 g
Owner

Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Coin and Medal Collection, Glasgow, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: ABD_2L_1_060o/r

Citation

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 106, nr. 90, pl. 6  ❐

Macdonald, Catalogue of Greek coins in the Hunterian collection 1, Glasgow 1899 p. 382, nr. 1, pl. 26, pic. 1  ❐

Combe, Nummorum Veterum Populorum Et Urbium, Qui In Museo Gulielmi Hunter Asservantur: Descriptio Figuris Illustrata, Londini 1782 p. 319, nr. 3  ❐

Literature

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 107-110 ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 105-106, nr. 88-90, pl. 6 (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. 107-110 ❐

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

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cn coin 21384, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_21384 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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