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cn coin 51751

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Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 395-360 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Griffin leaping left, forepart and forpaws raised, with feathered wings, tail curling and open beak.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠΙ - ΠΡΩ-ΤΕΩ
Design
Quadripartite incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Protes (III) 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Drachm (tetrobol) 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
12.68 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: The New York Sale eA 20 (07.01.2009) lot 116

Citation

Prokesch-Osten, Autonome thrakische Münzen der Sammlung Prokesch-Osten 4, 1872 p. 191, nr. 33  ❐

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 108, nr. 77  ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 78, nr. 124,3  ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 230, nr. 365a, pl. 18  ❐

Literature

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 119-126 ❐

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cn coin 51751, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_51751 [Last downloaded: 2026/09/13]

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