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cn coin 26744

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CN Type 5256 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 450-425 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Griffin leaping left.
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Symbol
phallus (position: on the left)
Reverse
Legend
ΕΠΙ ΝΕΣΤΙΟΣ
Design
Quadripartite linear square; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Nestis 🔍  

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

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: ABD_2L_2_048o/r

Citation

May, The Coinage of Dikaia-by-Abdera c. 540/35-476/5 B.C. 5, 1965 p. 131, nr. 154, pl. 10  (473/70-449/8 BC.)  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 68, nr. 25  ❐

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. 131, nr. 152-155, pl. 10 (c. 473/470-449/228 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 26744, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_26744 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/25]

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