cn coin 6478
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cn coin 6478

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CN Type 5735 🔍

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 under hindlegs and open beak. Groundline. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΠΥ-ΘΩΝ
Design
Tripod with three handles and laurel branches; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Python 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
stater 🔍  
Standard: Aeginetan
Material
Diameter
23 mm
Weight
12.82 g
Axis
3
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de

Owner Inventory No.: 18241772

Provenience: 1875 Prokesch-Osten - Vorbesitzer Prokesch von Osten

Citation

Prokesch-Osten, Autonome thrakische Münzen der Sammlung Prokesch-Osten 4, 1872 p. 189, nr. 18, pl. 9, pic. 9 

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 107, nr. 69 

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 72, nr. 104,1, pl. 2, pic. 37 

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 226, nr. 346a, pl. 18 

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. 226-227, nr. 345-348, pl. 18 (c. 411/410-386/385 BC, aeginetic 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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cn coin 6478, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6478 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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