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cn coin 5316

Connected to Type

CN Type 4960 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 475-450 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Abd_106z_92z 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse Η-Ρ-ΑΚ
Design
Griffin seated left, right forepaw raised, with palmette-like curved upwards wings, tail curling and open beak with tongue protruding; to left, cicada downwards. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Abd_106z_P86z 🔍
Design
Quadripartite linear square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Herak- 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Stater (tetradrachm) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
27 mm
Weight
14.12 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Künker, Auktion 226, 11.03.2013, 277; ex Stacks, Auktion 10.01.2011, 57; ex La Galerie Numismatique IX, January 2007, 24.

Citation

Künker, Auktion 226 - Münzen aus der Welt der Antike. Die Sammlung Kochs, Bonn, u. a. 11.-16. März 2013, 2013 nr. 227  ❐

Stacks, New York 2011 International Sale - 1/10/2011, New York 2011-10-01 nr. 57  ❐

La Galerie Numismatique, Auction IX, January 2007, New York 2007 nr. 24  ❐

Literature

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 110, nr. 106, pl. VII, pic. 106 ❐

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

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 110, nr. 104-107, pl. 7 (c. 492-473/470 BC.)  ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 107-110 ❐

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

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cn coin 5316, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_5316 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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