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cn coin 6483

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CN Type 5991 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 360-350 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Griffin leaping left, forepart and forpaws raised, with feathered wings, tail under hindlegs and closed beak.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse Α-ΘΗ/Ν-ΗΣ
Design
Stag standing left. Ground line. All within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Athenes (Abdera) 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Hemisiglos (drachm) 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
15 mm
Weight
2.66 g
Axis
2
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18241795

Provenience: 1875 Prokesch-Osten - Vorbesitzer Prokesch von Osten

Citation

Prokesch-Osten, Autonome thrakische Münzen der Sammlung Prokesch-Osten 4, 1872 p. 191, nr. 34  ❐

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 108, nr. 79  ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 73, nr. 107,2  ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 261, nr. 452d  ❐

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. 261-262, nr. 452-457, pl. 21 (c. 386/385-375 BC)  ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 127 (351 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. 73-74, nr. 107-108, pl. 2, pic. 29 (c. 425-400 BC)  ❐

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