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cn coin 26683

Connected to Type

CN Type 5250 🔍

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
kantharos (position: at the bottom left)
Reverse
Legend
ΕΠΙ ΣΜΟΡΔΟ Τ ΟΡΜΟΚΑΛ
Design
Quadripartite linear square; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Smordos Hermokalleos##Smordotormos/Kal. 🔍  

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

Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, Cabinet des Médailles, Brüssel, be ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 473/70-449/8 v. Chr.

Citation

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 126, nr. 138 a, pl. 9  (473/70-449/8 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. 125-126, nr. 134-138, pl. 8-9 (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. 111-119 ❐

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

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cn coin 26683, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_26683 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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