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cn coin 26751

Connected to Type

CN Type 5272 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 450-425 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Griffin leaping left.
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Symbol
kantharos (position: above)
Reverse
Legend
ΕΠΙ ΜΕΛΑΝΙΠΠΟ
Design
Quadripartite linear square; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Melanippos 🔍  

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

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: ABD_2L_2_055o/r

Citation

May, The Coinage of Dikaia-by-Abdera c. 540/35-476/5 B.C. 5, 1965 p. 133, nr. 162, annot. Anm. 1  (473/70-449/8 BC)  ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 , annot. 55/1  ❐

Literature

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 111-119 ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 133-134, nr. 161-163, pl. 10 (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 26751, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_26751 [Last downloaded: 2026/06/12]

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