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cn coin 6449

Connected to Type

CN Type 5258 🔍

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, male head, right.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠ Ι-ΠΠΩ-ΝΟ-Σ
Design
Quadripartite and raised linear square; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Hippon 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Stater (tetradrachm) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
27 mm
Weight
12.62 g
Axis
2
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18241639

Provenience: 1900 Imhoof-Blumer - Vorbesitzer Imhoof-Blumer

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. 56, nr. 51,3  ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 132, nr. 157a  ❐

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. 131-132, nr. 156-158, pl. 10 (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 6449, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6449 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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