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cn coin 47914

Connected to Type

CN Type 5831 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 395-360 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑΒΔΗ
Design
Griffin seated left.
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Symbol
cicada (position: on the left)
Reverse
Legend
ΕΠΙ ΦΙΛΑΔΟΣ
Design
Nude Heracles seated left on rock, head facing, rock covered with a lion skin, holding club in his right hand; all within a shallow incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Philas 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
stater 🔍  
Standard: Aeginetan
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
12.89 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Giessener Münzhandlung, Auktion 102, 24.5.2000, lot 111 = Peus 351, 23.04.1997, lot 92.

Literature

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 234-235, nr. 391-397/1, pl. 19 (c. 411/410-386/385 BC, aeginetic standard)  ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 72, nr. 105, pl. 11, pic. 40 (c. 425-400 BC, tetradrachm)  ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 119-126 ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 47914, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_47914 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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