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cn coin 26670

Connected to Type

CN Type 5233 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 450-425 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Griffin seated left, right forepaw raised.
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Symbol
bird (position: at the bottom left)
Reverse
Legend
ΕΠΙ ΗΡΟΔΟΤΟ
Design
Quadripartite linear square; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Herodotos (II) 🔍  

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

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: ABD_2L_2_028o/r

Citation

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 124, nr. 132 e  (473/70-449/8 BC\r\n)  ❐

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. 124, nr. 132-133, pl. 8 (c. 473/470-449/448 BC.)  ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 111-117 ❐

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

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cn coin 26670, in: Corpus Nummorum, http://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_26670 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/25]

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