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cn coin 5991

Connected to Type

CN Type 5611 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 395-360 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Abd_276_V207 🔍
Design
Griffin leaping left off capital of Ionic column, forepart and forpaws raised, with feathered wings, tail curling and open beak.
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Reverse
Die
Abd_277_R235 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠΙ ΗΡΟ-ΦΑΝ-ΕΟΣ
Design
Head of (youthful) Hermes, left, wearing a flat petasus tied below his chin; in front caduceus. In linear square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Herophanes 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Tetrobol 🔍  
Standard: Aeginetan
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
15.5 mm
Weight
2.62 g
Axis
5
Owner

Coll. H.I., , de

Literature

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 328 ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 210-211, nr. 276-280 ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 119 ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 210-211, nr. 277-280, pl. 15 (c. 411/410-386/385 BC, aeginetan standard)  ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 119-126 ❐

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cn coin 5991, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_5991 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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