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cn coin 6480

Connected to Type

CN Type 6015 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 360-350 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
Legend obverse ΑΒΔΗΡΙ
Design
Griffin lying left, right forepaw raised, with feathered wings, tail under hindlegs and closed beak. Ground line.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΠΟΛΥΚ*ΡΑ*ΤΗΣ
Design
Artemis standing right, wearing long garment, holding a wreath in right hand and bow with arrow in left hand; at her feet, stag standing right looking upwards; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Polykrates (II) 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Double siglos (tetradrachm) 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
24 mm
Weight
10.71 g
Axis
12
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18241784

Provenience: 1878/1045 - Vorbesitzer Rhusopulos (Rhousopoulos)

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: ABD_2L_5_105o/r

Citation

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 105, nr. 63, pl. 4, pic. 34  ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 83, nr. 135,2, pl. 3, pic. 8  ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 263, nr. 459a  ❐

Literature

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 126-127 ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 262-263, nr. 458-459, pl. 21 (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. 83, nr. 135, pl. 3, pic. 8 (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 (350-349 BC)  ❐

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