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cn coin 3312

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CN Type 5712 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 395-360 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
Legend obverse ΑΒΔΗΡΙΤΕΩΝ
Design
Griffin seated left, right forepaw raised, with plain curved wings, tail curling and open beak with tongue protruding.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠΙ ΜΟΛ-ΠΑΓΟΡΕΩ
Design
Girl dancing left, turning, wearing a short drifting chiton and a polos, raising her right arm, all within a shallow incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Molpagores (I) 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
stater 🔍  
Standard: Aeginetan
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
23 mm
Weight
12.32 g
Axis
3
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18214530

Provenience: \'Von Herrn Giel in Petersburg.\'

Citation

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 106, nr. 68, pl. 4, pic. 38  ❐

Sallet, Die Erwerbungen des Königlichen Münzcabinets vom 1. April 1886 bis 1. April 1887 15, 1887 p. 6, pl. 1, pic. 10  ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 71, nr. 99.1  ❐

Regling, Die antike Münze als Kunstwerk, Berlin 1924 nr. 492  ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 219, nr. 314a  ❐

Literature

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 148 ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 219, nr. 314-315, pl. 17 (c. 411/410-386/385 BC, aeginetic standard)  ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 123 (377-374 BC)  ❐

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cn coin 3312, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_3312 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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