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cn coin 28469

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CN Type 5677 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 395-360 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Griffin leaping left.
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Reverse
Legend
ΚΛΕΑΝ
Design
Bull's head and neck, left, within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Kleantides 🔍

Metrology
Denomination
Diobol 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
1.30 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_5_082o/r

Citation

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 218, nr. 308 d  (ca. 411/410-386/385 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. 81, nr. 131.4  ❐

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. 217-218, nr. 305-308, pl. 16 (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 ❐

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cn coin 28469, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_28469 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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