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cn coin 6412

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CN Type 4637 🔍

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Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 475-450 BC

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Obverse
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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 linear square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Tele- 🔍  

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

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de

Owner Inventory No.: 18237456

Provenience: 1873 Fox - Vorbesitzer Borrell

Citation

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 100, nr. 16 

Fritze, Die autonomen Münzen von Abdera. Eine chronologische Studie 3, 1909 p. 2, nr. 2 a, pl. 1, pic. 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. 50, nr. 31,1, pl. 1, pic. 5 

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 104, nr. 84 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. 104, nr. 84-85 (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 6412, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6412 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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