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cn coin 5584

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CN Type 4469 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 500-475 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Abd_045_A38 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΕΚ<ΑΤ>
Design
Griffin seated left, right forepaw raised, with plain curved wings, tail curling and open beak with tongue protruding.
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Reverse
Die
Abd_045_P42 🔍
Design
Quadripartite incuse square with uneven surfaces.
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Persons

Magistrate: Hekat- 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Distater (octadrachm) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
29 mm
Weight
29.94 g
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18232873

Provenience: 1875 Prokesch-Osten

Citation

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 78, nr. 45, pl. 4  ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 44, nr. 4  ❐

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 198, nr. 2  ❐

Prokesch-Osten, Autonome thrakische Münzen der Sammlung Prokesch-Osten 4, 1872 p. 186, nr. 1  ❐

Prokesch-Osten, Description de quelques Médailles grecques, 1860 p. 266, pl. 12, pic. 1  ❐

Literature

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

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 78, nr. 45, pl. 4 (520/515-492 BC.)  ❐

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

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

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cn coin 5584, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_5584 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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