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cn coin 28289

Connected to Type

CN Type 5723 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 395-360 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Griffin leaping left.
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Reverse
Legend
ΠΡΩΤΗΣ
Design
Laureate head of Apollo, left, within linear square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Protes (II) 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Drachm (tetrobol) 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
2.57 g
Owner

Nationalmuseet, Kongelige Mønt- og Medaillesamling, Kopenhagen, dk ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 205

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: ABD_2L_5_002o/r

Citation

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 77, nr. 119.2, pl. 2, pic. 10  (c. 425-400 BC)  ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 222, nr. 327 d  (c. 411/410-386/385 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 (c. 395-360 BC)  ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 222-223, nr. 324-329, pl. 17 (c. 411/410-386/385 BC, persic 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 ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 77, nr. 119, pl. 2, pic. 10 (c. 425-400 BC)  ❐

Hoover, Handbook of coins of Macedon and its neighbors. Part II: Thrace, Skythia, and Taurike: sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, Pa. London 2017 p. 24, nr. 1217 (drachm)  ❐

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cn coin 28289, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_28289 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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