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cn coin 27217

Connected to Type

CN Type 5516 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 415-395 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Griffin seated left, right forepaw raised.
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Reverse
Legend
ΑΘΗΝΑΙΟΣ
Design
Dionysus standing left, holding cantharus and branch, within linear square; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Athenaios (Abdera) 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
13.57 g
Owner

Sarajevo, Sarajevo, ba

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: ABD_2L_3_042o/r

Citation

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 166, nr. 216 c  (439/37-411/10 BC)  ❐

Münzhandlung Basel, Auktionskatalog 8 8, Basel 1937 nr. 190  ❐

Literature

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

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 166, nr. 216, pl. 13 (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. 117-118 ❐

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cn coin 27217, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_27217 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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