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cn coin 6481

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CN Type 5908 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 360-350 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
Legend obverse ΑΒΔΗ
Design
Griffin lying left, right forepaw raised, with feathered wings, tail curling and closed beak.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠΙ ΤΗΛΕΜΑΧΟ
Design
Nude bearded Heracles advancing right, holding lion skin over left arm, a bow in left hand and club in raised right hand, a quiver at his back; to right, scallop shell downwards. Ground line. All within a shallow incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Telemachos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Double siglos (tetradrachm) 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
22 mm
Weight
10.10 g
Axis
6
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18241788

Provenience: 1875 Prokesch-Osten - Vorbesitzer Prokesch von Osten

Citation

Prokesch-Osten, Autonome thrakische Münzen der Sammlung Prokesch-Osten 4, 1872 p. 189, nr. 20, pl. 9, pic. 11  ❐

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 105, nr. 64, pl. 4, pic. 35  ❐

Fritze, Die autonomen Münzen von Abdera. Eine chronologische Studie 3, 1909 p. 8, pl. 2, pic. 26  ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 84, nr. 137,1, pl. 3, pic. 7  ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 252, nr. 404a, pl. 19  ❐

Du Bois-Reymond, Bogen und Bogenschießen auf griechischen Münzen 35, 1925 p. 25, nr. 9, pl. 13  ❐

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. 251-252, nr. 402-404, pl. 19 (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. 84, nr. 137, pl. 3, pic. 7 (c. 400-390 BC)  ❐

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

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