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cn coin 6475

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CN Type 5608 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 395-360 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Griffin leaping left, forepart and forpaws raised, with feathered wings, tail curling and open beak. Above grain corn.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΗΡΟ-ΦΑ-ΝΗ-Σ
Design
Bunch of grapes within an ivy tendril; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Herophanes 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
stater 🔍  
Standard: Aeginetan
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
22 mm
Weight
12.50 g
Axis
12
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18241720

Provenience: 1875 Prokesch-Osten - Vorbesitzer Prokesch von Osten

Citation

Prokesch-Osten, Autonome thrakische Münzen der Sammlung Prokesch-Osten 4, 1872 p. 189, nr. 19, pl. 9, pic. 10  ❐

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 105, nr. 60  ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 70, nr. 95,1, pl. 2, pic. 38  ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 210, nr. 275a  ❐

Literature

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 119-126 ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 210, nr. 275, pl. 15 (c. 411/410-386/385 BC, aeginetan standard)  ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 119-126 ❐

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