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cn coin 6419

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CN Type 4623 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 475-450 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
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Design
Griffin seated left, right forepaw raised, with plain curved wings, tail curling and open beak. Ground line.
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Reverse
Design
Quadripartite incuse square, divided by two crossed lines.
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Persons

Magistrate: Hege- 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Tetarte (drachm) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
14 mm
Weight
3.57 g
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18237513

Provenience: 1906 Löbbecke - Vorbesitzer Löbbecke

Citation

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 51-52, nr. 37,3  ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 101, nr. 75b  ❐

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. 100-101, nr. 74-76, pl. 5 (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. 108-109 ❐

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

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cn coin 6419, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6419 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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