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cn coin 27149

Connected to Type

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
13.80 g
Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: ABD_2L_3_020o/r

Citation

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 131, nr. 155, pl. XII  (473/70-449/8 BC)  ❐

Grose, Catalogue of the McClean collection of Greek coins 1, Cambridge 1923 nr. 4003  ❐

Literature

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 ❐

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 27149, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_27149 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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