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cn coin 5908

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CN Type 4493 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 500-475 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Griffin seated left, right forepaw raised, with plain curved wings, tail curling and open beak. Ground line. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Design
Quadripartite incuse punch.
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Metrology
Denomination
Tetarte (drachm) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
15 mm
Weight
3.63 g
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18247109

Provenience: 1846/7124

Citation

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 100, nr. 20  ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 124, nr. m 1  ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 81, nr. 56 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. 148 ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 81, nr. 55-56, 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. 105 ❐

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

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cn coin 5908, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_5908 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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