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cn coin 27159

Connected to Type

CN Type 5287 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 450-425 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Griffin leaping left.
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Symbol
ivy leaf (position: on the left)
Reverse
Legend
ΑΡΤΕΜΩΝ
Design
Cantharus within linear square; all within incuse square.
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Symbol
ivy leaf (position: on the left)
Persons

Magistrate: Artemon 🔍  

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

Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Coin and Medal Collection, Glasgow, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: ABD_2L_3_029o/r

Citation

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 140, nr. 187, pl. XII  (473/70-449/8 BC)  ❐

Macdonald, Catalogue of Greek coins in the Hunterian collection 1, Glasgow 1899 p. 383, nr. 5  ❐

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. 139-140, nr. 187, pl. 12 (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. 111-117 ❐

Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 179-182 ❐

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cn coin 27159, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_27159 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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