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cn coin 27826

Connected to Type

CN Type 5983 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 360-350 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑΒΔΗΡΙ
Design
Griffin leaping left.
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Reverse
Legend
ΕΠΙ ΚΑΛΛΙΑΝΑΚΤΟΣ
Design
Nude Apollo standing left, holding patera and branch ; behind him, stag.
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Persons

Magistrate: Kallianax 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Double siglos (tetradrachm) 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
11.15 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_118o/r

Citation

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 260, nr. 449 a, pl. XXI  (386/5-375 BC\r\n)  ❐

Literature

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 449 a ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 260, nr. 449-451, pl. 20 (c. 386/385-375 BC)  ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 127 (352 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. 70, nr. 97, pl. 2, pic. 33 (c. 425-400 BC)  ❐

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cn coin 27826, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_27826 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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