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cn coin 48816

Connected to Type

CN Type 4468 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 500-475 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑΒΔΗ
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
29.22 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Gorny&Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung, Auktion 147, 6./7. 3. 2006, lot 1251

Literature

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 104, annot. Fußnote 2. ❐

Gorny & Mosch. Giessener Münzhandlung., Auktion 56, 7 October 1991., München nr. 139 ❐

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

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cn coin 48816, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_48816 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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