cn coin 46502

Connected to Type

CN Type 5272 🔍

Mint

Abdera 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

c. 450-425 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Griffin leaping left.
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Symbol

kantharos (position: above)

Reverse

Legend

ΕΠΙ ΜΕΛΑΝΙΠΠΟ

Design

Quadripartite linear square; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Melanippos 🔍

Metrology

Denomination

Stater (tetradrachm) 🔍
Standard: reduced Chian

Material

silver 🔍

Weight

14.85 g

Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Provenience: Leu Numismatik AG 83 (6 May 2002) 137. Ex CNG 42, 29 May 1997, 284, and from the collections of N.B. Hunt, II, Sotheby’s 21 June 1990, 320, R.Jameson, and Consul E.F. Weber, Hirsch XXI, 16 November 1908, 842.

Literature

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 133-134, nr. 161-163, pl. 10 (c. 473/470-449/448 BC.) ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 111-119 ❐

Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 179-182 ❐

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cn coin 46502, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_46502 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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