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cn coin 6474

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CN Type 5977 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 360-350 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
Legend obverse ΑΒΔΗ
Design
Griffin leaping left, forepart and forpaws raised, with feathered wings, tail curling and open beak.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠΙ ΖΗΝΩΝΟ
Design
Hermes standing right, wearing petasus and chlamys fixed over right shoulder, holding short staff in right hand, extending left hand; to right, cantharus; all within shallow incuse square.
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Symbol
kantharos (position: at the bottom right)
Persons

Magistrate: Zenon (Abdera) 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Double siglos (tetradrachm) 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
23 mm
Weight
10.27 g
Axis
11
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18241716

Provenience: 1900 Imhoof-Blumer - Vorbesitzer Imhoof-Blumer

Citation

Imhoof-Blumer, Monnaies grecques, Paris 1883 p. 39, nr. 6, pl. C, 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. 69, nr. 92,1  ❐

May, The Coinage of Maroneia c. 520-449/8 B. C., 1965 p. 260, nr. 448b  ❐

Literature

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 126-128 ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 259-260, nr. 447-448, pl. 20 (c. 386/385-375 BC)  ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 69, nr. 92 (c. 425-400 BC)  ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 127 (355 BC)  ❐

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cn coin 6474, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6474 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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