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cn coin 6442

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CN Type 5276 🔍

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 closed beak; above, figure flying left; below, branch below. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠ Η-ΓΗ-ΣΙΠ-ΠΟ
Design
Quadripartite and raised linear square; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Hegisippos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Stater (tetradrachm) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
27 mm
Weight
14.18 g
Axis
9
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18240549

Provenience: 1875 Prokesch-Osten - Vorbesitzer Prokesch von Osten

Citation

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 101, nr. 33, pl. 3, pic. 29  ❐

Prokesch-Osten, Autonome thrakische Münzen der Sammlung Prokesch-Osten 4, 1872 p. 188, nr. 13  ❐

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. 48,1  ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 136, nr. 172b  ❐

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. 136-137, nr. 171-173, 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 6442, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6442 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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