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cn coin 6459

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CN Type 5516 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 415-395 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Griffin leaping left, forepart and forpaws raised, with feathered wings, tail curling and closed beak.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse Α-Θ-ΗΝ-ΑΙ-ΟΣ
Design
Dionysus standing left, holding cantharus and branch, within linear square; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Athenaios (Abdera) 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Material
Diameter
24 mm
Weight
13.88 g
Axis
7
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de

Owner Inventory No.: 18241667

Provenience: 1900 Imhoof-Blumer - Vorbesitzer Imhoof-Blumer

Citation

Imhoof-Blumer, Monnaies grecques, Paris 1883 p. 38, nr. 4, pl. C, pic. 2 

Fritze, Die autonomen Münzen von Abdera. Eine chronologische Studie 3, 1909 p. 4, pl. 2, pic. 3 

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 61, nr. 65,1, pl. 2, pic. 4 

Regling, Die antike Münze als Kunstwerk, Berlin 1924 nr. 489, pl. 22 

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 166, nr. 216b 

Literature

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 117-119

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 166, nr. 216, pl. 13 (c. 439/437-411/410 BC, reduced Thraco-Macedonian standard) 

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 117-118

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cn coin 6459, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6459 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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