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cn coin 53053

Connected to Type

CN Type 6019 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 360-350 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑΒΔΗΡΙ
Design
Griffin lying left, right forepaw raised.
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Reverse
Legend
ΕΠΙ ΠΟΛΥΚΡΑΤΕΟΣ
Design
Artemis standing facing on a base, wearing kalathos, holding bow in raised left hand, feeding deer, standing left, from branch in right hand; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Polykrates (II) 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Double siglos (tetradrachm) 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
11.39 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Peus 355 (27.04.1998) 697.

Literature

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 263, nr. 461, pl. 21 (c. 386/385-375 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. 83, nr. 136 ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 127 ❐

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cn coin 53053, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_53053 [Last downloaded: 2026/06/14]

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