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cn coin 6465

Connected to Type

CN Type 5550 🔍

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 ΗΓΗ-ΣΑΓ-ΟΡΗ-Σ
Design
Male head, left, within linear square, in left filed a dot; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Hegesagores 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
24 mm
Weight
13.84 g
Axis
4
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18241697

Provenience: 1900 Imhoof-Blumer - Vorbesitzer Imhoof-Blumer

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Citation

Imhoof-Blumer, Monnaies grecques, Paris 1883 p. 39, nr. 5  ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 64, nr. 78,1  ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 171, nr. 231a  ❐

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. 170-171, nr. 228-232, 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 6465, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6465 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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