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cn coin 51694

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CN Type 4479 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 500-475 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

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

Magistrate: Anti- (I) 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Distater (octadrachm) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
29.60 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: The New York Sale eA 27 (04.01.2012) lot 218 = Ex Giessener Münzhandlung, Auction 38, Munich, 30 November 1987, lot 96 Ex Giessener Münzhandlung, Auction 42, Munich, 11 October 1988, lot 125 Purchased from Spink & Son Ltd., London, 6 October 1989

Literature

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 80, nr. 50, pl. 4 (520/515-492 BC.)  ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 104-105 ❐

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

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cn coin 51694, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_51694 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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