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cn coin 6451

Connected to Type

CN Type 5254 🔍

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 with tongue protruding; below, bee. Ground line. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠΙ Π-VΟΙΝ-ΝΕ-Ω
Design
Quadripartite and raised linear square; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Pythinnes (I) 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Stater (tetradrachm) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
26 mm
Weight
14.54 g
Axis
5
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18241642

Provenience: 1906 Löbbecke - Vorbesitzer Löbbecke

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. 58, nr. 57, pl. 1, pic. 13  ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 130, nr. 151a  ❐

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. 130, nr. 151, pl. 9 (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 6451, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6451 [Last downloaded: 2026/06/10]

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