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cn coin 27150

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CN Type 5269 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 450-425 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Griffin leaping left.
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Symbol
scorpion (position: below)
Reverse
Legend
ΕΠΙ ΜΟΛΠΑΔΟΣ
Design
Youthful male head, left, within linear square; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Molpas (Abdera) 🔍  

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

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: ABD_2L_3_021o/r

Citation

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 133, nr. 160, pl. XII  (473/70-449/8 BC)  ❐

Naville, Sammlung C. S. Bement/Philadelphia USA 6, Genua 1923 nr. 838  ❐

Robinson, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. Volume III. The Lockett Collection. Part 4. Peloponnese-Aeolis., London 1946 nr. 1129  ❐

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 ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 132-133, nr. 159-160, 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 27150, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_27150 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/25]

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