cn coin 53030

Forgery

technique: cast

Compare Paris specimen (coin 10928) for a possible template or parallel piece. Material is unclear, sort of white metal. In the fogeries collection in the Berlin Coin Cabinet.

Connected to types 5509 🔍

side: both
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Mint

Abdera 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

Obverse

Design

Griffin leaping left, forepart and forpaws raised, with feathered wings, tail curling and open beak.
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Reverse

Legend

ΑΝΑ-ΞΙ-ΔΙ-ΚΟΣ

Design

Head of a he-goat, left, in linear square frame, in left field, two dots; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Anaxidikos (I) 🔍

Metrology

Denomination

Drachm (tetrobol) 🔍
Standard: Persian

Diameter

15 mm

Weight

2.92 g

Axis

Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18303263

Provenience: v. Rauch

Citation

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 74, nr. 109,2 (on the original coin) ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 165, nr. 213b (Period V, Group LXXIV, c. 439/437-411/410 BC (on the original coin)) ❐

Literature

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 117-119 (on the original coin) ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 53030, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_53030 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]