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cn coin 50534

Connected to Type

CN Type 6786 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 300-250 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Laureate head of Apollo, right.
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Reverse
Legend
ΑΒΔΗΡΙΤΩΝ ΕΠ(Ι,Ε) ΙΣΑΓΟΡΟΥ
Design
Griffin lying left.
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Persons

Magistrate: Isagoras 🔍

Metrology
Denomination
Obol 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
23 mm
Weight
6.94 g
Axis
12
Owner

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 84.580

Provenience: Acquired in the division of coins following the excavations at Assos. Some coins in the group were said to have been "purchased from natives of the surrounding district." No specific findspot is known for this coin. 1884: gift of the Archaeological Institute of America to the Museum of Fine Arts

Citation

Bell, Coins from Assos, London-Cambridge, MA-Leipzig 1902 p. 298, nr. 5  ❐

Literature

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 256-259, nr. 454-471 (1st half of the 3rd c. BC)  ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 115, nr. 239 ❐

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cn coin 50534, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_50534 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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