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cn coin 27520

Connected to Type

CN Type 5593 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 395-360 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑΒΔΗ
Design
Griffin leaping left.
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Reverse
Legend
ΕΠΙ ΜΥΡΣΟ
Design
Nude youth standing left, holding discus in right hand, raising left hand; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Myrsos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
stater 🔍  
Standard: Aeginetan
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
12.76 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_4_016o/r

Citation

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 208, nr. 271, pl. XV  (411/10-386/5 BC)  ❐

Literature

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 208, nr. 269-271, pl. 15 (c. 411/410-386/385 BC, aeginetan 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 27520, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_27520 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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