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cn coin 26754

Connected to Type

CN Type 5274 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 450-425 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Griffin leaping left.
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Symbol
amphora (position: above)
Reverse
Legend
ΕΠ ΕΡΜΟΚΡΑΤΙΔΕΩ
Design
Quadripartite linear square; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Hermokratides 🔍  

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

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: ABD_2L_2_058o/r

Citation

May, The Coinage of Dikaia-by-Abdera c. 540/35-476/5 B.C. 5, 1965 p. 134, nr. 164, pl. XI  (473/70-449/8 BCrn)  ❐

Regling, Die griechischen Münzen der Sammlung Warren, Berlin 1906 nr. 483  ❐

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. 134-135, nr. 164-168, pl. 11 (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 26754, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_26754 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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