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cn coin 27624

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CN Type 5712 🔍

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
ΕΠΙ ΜΟΛΠΑΓΟΡΕΩ
Design
Girl dancing left, turning, wearing a polos; all within a shallow incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Molpagores (I) 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
stater 🔍  
Standard: Aeginetan
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
12.48 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_053o/r

Citation

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 219, nr. 315 a  (411/10-386/5 BC)  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 70, nr. 35  ❐

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. 219, nr. 314-315, pl. 17 (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. 123 (377-374 BC)  ❐

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cn coin 27624, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_27624 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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