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cn coin 6425

Connected to Type

CN Type 5274 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 450-425 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Griffin leaping left, forepart and forpaws raised, with feathered wings, tail curling and open beak. Above amphora. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠ ΕΡ-ΜΟΚΡ-ΑΤΙ-ΔΕΩ
Design
Raised quadripartite linear square with dotted surfaces; within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Hermokratides 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Stater (tetradrachm) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
28 mm
Weight
14.92 g
Axis
12
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18238861

Provenience: Ohne Nummer

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

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. 55, nr. 46,1  ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 135, nr. 168a, pl. 11  ❐

Literature

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 111-117 ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 134-135, nr. 164-168, pl. 11 (c. 473/470-449/448 BC.)  ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 111-119 ❐

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

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cn coin 6425, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6425 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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