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cn coin 47573

Connected to Type

CN Type 4467 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 500-475 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑΒ
Design
Griffin seated left, right forepaw raised.
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Reverse
Design
Quadripartite incuse square.
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Metrology
Denomination
Distater (octadrachm) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
29.71 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Giessener Münzhandlung, Auktion 82, 29.4.1997, lot 54

Literature

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 78, nr. 44-44/I, pl. 3 (520/515-492 BC.)  ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 103-107 ❐

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

Cite this record:

cn coin 47573, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_47573 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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