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cn coin 21415

Connected to Type

CN Type 4960 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 475-450 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΗΡΑΚ
Design
Griffin seated left, right forepaw raised.
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Symbol
cicada (position: on the left)
Reverse
Design
Quadripartite incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Herak- 🔍  

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

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: ABD_2L_2_001o/r

Citation

Regling, Die griechischen Münzen der Sammlung Warren, Berlin 1906 nr. 436  ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 110, nr. 104, pl. 7  (492-473/470 BC)  ❐

Brett, Catalogue of Greek coins. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1955 nr. 747  ❐

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. 110, nr. 104-107, pl. 7 (c. 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 21415, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_21415 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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