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cn coin 37579

Connected to Type

CN Type 7025 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 250-150 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Male head with diadem, winged, right.
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Reverse
Legend
ΑΒΔΗΡΙΤΩΝ
Design
Griffin lying left, right forepaw raised.
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Symbol
eight-rayed star (position: on the left)
Metrology
Denomination
Chalkous 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
19 mm
Weight
4.84 g
Axis
12
Owner

Edirne Müzesi, Edirne, tr ❐

Owner Inventory No.: R-624

Citation

Arslan et al., Antike Münzen von Thrakien und Moesien aus öffentlichen und privaten Sammlungen der Türkei, Berlin-Boston 2021 p. 28, nr. 125, pl. XII  ❐

Literature

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 113-114, nr. 237 (c. 240-201 BC, Ptolemaios III.-V.?)  ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 295-304, nr. 708-810 (2nd half of 3rd c. to 1rst half of 2nd c. BC, chalkous)  ❐

Lorber, Coins of the Ptolemaic Empire. Part I: Ptolemy I through Ptolemy IV, volume 1-2, New York 2018 p. 98, nr. B408 (Head on obverse idetified as Ptolemaios III. and therefor dated 246-222 BC.)  ❐

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