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cn coin 28325

Connected to Type

CN Type 5811 🔍

Mint

Abdera 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

c. 395-360 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Griffin leaping left on ear of corn.
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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

2.54 g

Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 226

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: ABD_2L_5_009o/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. 78, nr. 123.1 (ca. 425-400 BC) ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 223, nr. 331 a, pl. 17 (ca. 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 (ca. 395-360 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. 78, nr. 123 (c. 425-400 BC, drachm) ❐

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. 223, nr. 331, pl. 17 (c. 411/410-386/385 BC, tetrobol, persic standard) ❐

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cn coin 28325, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_28325 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/22]

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