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cn coin 21416

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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
14.21 g
Owner

Unknown, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: ABD_2L_2_004o/r

Citation

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 110, nr. 106 b, pl. 7  ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 21, nr. 6  (492-473/470 BC)  ❐

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 21416, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_21416 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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