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cn coin 6477

Connected to Type

CN Type 5593 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 395-360 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 Μ-ΥΡΣΟ
Design
Nude youth standing left, holding discus in right hand, raising left hand; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Myrsos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
stater 🔍  
Standard: Aeginetan
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
24 mm
Weight
12.23 g
Axis
1
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18241738

Provenience: 1873 Fox - Vorbesitzer Fox

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: ABD_2L_4_014o/r

Citation

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 106, nr. 66, pl. 4, pic. 37  ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 71, nr. 101,1, pl. 2, pic. 35  ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 208, nr. 269a, pl. 15  ❐

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. 208, nr. 269-271, 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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