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cn coin 27172

Connected to Type

CN Type 5421 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 415-395 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Griffin seated left, right forepaw raised.
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Symbol
ivy leaf (position: on the left)
Reverse
Legend
ΑΝΑΞΙΔΙΚΟΣ
Design
Hermes standing right, wearing petasus and chlamys, holding caduceus in right hand; within linear square and incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Anaxidikos (I) 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
14.12 g
Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: ABD_2L_3_036o/r

Citation

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 164, nr. 206 a, pl. XII  (439/37-411/10 v. Chr.)  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 230, nr. 28 a  ❐

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. 164, nr. 206, pl. 12 (c. 439/437-411/410 BC, reduced Thraco-Macedonian standard)  ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 117-119 ❐

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cn coin 27172, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_27172 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/25]

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