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cn coin 49203

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CN Type 5555 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 415-395 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Griffin seated left, right forepaw raised.
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Reverse
Legend
ΕΠΙ ΔΗΜΟΚΡΙΤΟ
Design
Lyre with seven strings; within a linear square; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Demokritos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Berlin

Citation

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 63, nr. 73.2?  (Perhaps this plaster is the original 73.2 of the Berlin collection. Today, only 73.1 can be found there (CN 6462).)  ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 172, annot. fn. 2  ❐

Literature

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 172-173, nr. 234-237, pl. 14 (c. 439/437-411/410 BC, reduced Thraco-Macedonian 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. 63, nr. 73 ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 117-118 ❐

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cn coin 49203, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_49203 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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