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cn coin 52410

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CN Type 4456 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 500-475 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Griffin seated left, right forepaw raised.
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Symbol
ivy leaf (position: at the bottom left)
Reverse
Design
Quadripartite incuse square.
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Metrology
Denomination
Distater (octadrachm) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
27.44 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Künker 174 (27.09.2010) 165.

Literature

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 74, nr. 33 (520/515-492 BC. May reads ΣΙ on the obverse.)  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 65, nr. 1 (On the obverse ΣΙ ?)  ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 103-107 (Ivy leaf instead of the legend ΣΙ.)  ❐

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

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cn coin 52410, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_52410 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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