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cn coin 27781

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CN Type 5944 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 360-350 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Griffin leaping left.
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Reverse
Legend
ΜΟΛΠΑΓΟΡΗΣ
Design
Head of Dionysus, left, wearing ivy wreath in linear square; all within shallow incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Molpagores (II) 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Hemisiglos (drachm) 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
2.84 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: ABD_2L_4_087o/r

Citation

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 253, nr. 411  (386/5-375 BC)  ❐

Robinson, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. Volume III. The Lockett Collection. Part 4. Peloponnese-Aeolis., London 1946 nr. 1137  ❐

Naville & Cie, Catalogue of public auction VII (23-24.06.1924). Collection Clarence S. Bement de Philadelphia (U.S.A.). Monnaies grecques antiques en or et en argent. Seconde partie: Attique a Mauritanie VII, 1924 nr. 1530  ❐

Literature

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 126-128 ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 252-255, nr. 405.411-412.415-416.418-419, pl. 20 (c. 386/385-375 BC)  ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 76-77, nr. 116-117, pl. 2, pic. 13 (c. 425-400 BC)  ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 127 (357 v. Chr.)  ❐

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