cn coin 27492
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cn coin 27492

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CN Type 5584 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 395-360 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑΒΔΗΡΙΤΕΩΝ
Design
Griffin seated left, right forepaw raised.
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Reverse
Legend
ΕΠ ΟΡΧΑΜΟ
Design
Lion standing right within linear square; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Orchamos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
half-stater 🔍  
Standard: Aeginetan
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
6.06 g
Owner

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: Boston Catalogue, no.73

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: ABD_2L_3_082r

Citation

Regling, Die griechischen Münzen der Sammlung Warren, Berlin 1906 nr. 453  ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 206, nr. 260 a, pl. XV  (411/10-386/5 BC)  ❐

Literature

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 119-126 ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 205-207, nr. 253-264, pl. 15 (c. 411/410-386/385 BC., aeginetic standard)  ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 119-126 ❐

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cn coin 27492, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_27492 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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