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cn coin 5619

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CN Type 4640 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 475-450 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
Legend obverse ΔΕΟ
Design
Griffin seated left, right forepaw raised, with palmette-like curved upwards wings, tail curling and open beak; below right forepaw, cock seated left. Ground line. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Design
Quadripartite incuse square with uneven surfaces.
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Metrology
Denomination
Stater (tetradrachm) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
26 mm
Weight
14.98 g
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18237379

Provenience: 1873 Fox

Citation

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 99, nr. 5  ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 47, nr. 19,1  ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 106, nr. 89 a, pl. 6  ❐

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. 105-106, nr. 88-90, pl. 6 (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 5619, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_5619 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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