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cn coin 6463

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CN Type 5561 🔍

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 open beak.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse Ε-ΚΑ-ΤΑ-ΙΟ-Σ
Design
Eagle flying left, wings open, within linear square; in left field a dot. All within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Hekataios 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
25 mm
Weight
14.20 g
Axis
10
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18241695

Provenience: 1906 Löbbecke - Vorbesitzer Löbbecke

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. 63, nr. 74,2  ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 173, nr. 238a  ❐

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. 173-174, nr. 238-342, pl. 14 (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 6463, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6463 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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