cn coin 29875
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cn coin 29875

Connected to Type

CN Type 6778 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 300-250 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Laureate head of Apollo, right.
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Reverse
Legend
ΕΠΙ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ ΑΒΔΗΡΙΤΩΝ
Design
Griffin lying left.
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Symbol
corn-ear (position: above)
Persons

Magistrate: Alexandros (2) 🔍

Metrology
Denomination
Obol 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Weight
7.94 g
Owner

Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Coin and Medal Collection, Glasgow, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: ABD_2L_8_049o/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. 115, nr. 238.5  ❐

Literature

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 251-254, nr. 416-433 (1st half of the 3rd c. BC)  ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 251-254, nr. 416-433 (1st half of the 3rd c. 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. 115, nr. 238 ❐

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cn coin 29875, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_29875 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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