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cn coin 46509

Connected to Type

CN Type 5253 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 450-425 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΚΑΛΛΙΔΑΜΑΣ
Design
Griffin seated left on tunny, left, right forepaw raised.
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Symbol
tunny (position: below)
Reverse
Legend
ΑΒΔΗΡΙΤΕΩΝ
Design
Inscription surrounding a quadripartite linear square; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Kallidamas 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Stater (tetradrachm) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
15.05 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Provenience: Leu Numismatik AG 86 (5 May 2003) 310. From the de Guermantes collection, and from that of Sir H. Weber, 2375, purchased from H. Hoffmann in Paris before 1885 = Künker 193,26.09.2011,lot 106 =Künker 226, 11.03.2013, lot 279

Literature

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 127-130, nr. 142-150 (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 46509, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_46509 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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