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cn coin 50180

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CN Type 4647 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 475-450 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
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Design
Griffin seated left, right forepaw raised.
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Reverse
Design
Quadripartite incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Deo... 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Tetarte (drachm) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
18 mm
Weight
3.16 g
Axis
11
Owner

Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Archäologisches Museum, Münster, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 784/M 485

Provenience: in der Sammlung seit 1956, ex Slg. Bieder

Literature

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 106-108, nr. 93-97, pl. 6 (492-473/470 BC.)  ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 107-110 ❐

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

Cite this record:

cn coin 50180, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_50180 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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