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cn coin 5617

Connected to Type

CN Type 4505 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 475-450 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
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Design
Griffin leaping left, forepart and forpaws raised, with feathered wings, tail curling and open beak. Above tail, scallop shell.
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Reverse
Die
Abd_045_P42 🔍
Design
Quadripartite incuse square with uneven surfaces.
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Persons

Magistrate: Anti- (II) 🔍  

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

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18237349

Provenience: 1900 Imhoof-Blumer

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. 46, nr. 15.1  ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 97, nr. 63 a, pl. 4  ❐

Literature

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 107-111 ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 97, nr. 63-64, pl. 4 (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 5617, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_5617 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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