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cn coin 5907

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CN Type 4428 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 520-500 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Griffin seated left, right forepaw raised, with plain curved wings, tail curling and open beak with tongue protruding.
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Reverse
Design
Quadripartite incuse punch.
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Metrology
Denomination
Hemistater (didrachm) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 19 mm / Min: 16 mm
Weight
7.38 g
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18247108

Provenience: 1899/882

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Sakhā, EG [EG] ❐

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IGCH 1639 ❐

Citation

Fritze, Die autonomen Münzen von Abdera. Eine chronologische Studie 3, 1909 p. 11, 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. 123, nr. k 1  ❐

Dressel and Regling, Zwei ägyptische Funde altgriechischer Silbermünzen 37, 1927 p. 238 f., nr. 28  ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 64, nr. 19 a, pl. 2  ❐

Literature

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 148 ❐

Fritze, Die autonomen Münzen von Abdera. Eine chronologische Studie 3, 1909 p. 11, nr. 5 v, pl. 3, pic. 25 ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 123, nr. k, pic. 10 ❐

Dressel and Regling, Zwei ägyptische Funde altgriechischer Silbermünzen 37, 1927 p. 237 f., nr. 27, pl. 8, pic. 3 ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 64, nr. 18-19, pl. 2 (540/535-520/515 BC, didrachm, abderitan standard)  ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 148 (Date.)  ❐

Thompson et al., An inventory of Greek coin hoards, New York 1973 nr. 1639 ❐

Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 179-182 (red. chian standard)  ❐

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cn coin 5907, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_5907 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/23]

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