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cn coin 6485

Connected to Type

CN Type 5509 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 415-395 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Griffin leaping left, forepart and forpaws raised, with feathered wings, tail curling and closed beak.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΑΝΑ-ΞΙ-ΔΙ-ΚΟΣ
Design
Head of a he-goat, left, in linear square frame, in left field, two dots; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Anaxidikos (I) 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Drachm (tetrobol) 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
15 mm
Weight
2.70 g
Axis
6
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18241797

Provenience: 1906 Löbbecke - Vorbesitzer Löbbecke

Citation

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 74, nr. 109,3, pl. 2, pic. 9  ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 164, nr. 207a, pl. 13  (c. 439/437-411/410 BC, wrong weight)  ❐

Literature

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 117-119 ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 164-166, nr. 207-214, pl. 13 (c. 439/437-411/410 BC, persic tetrobol)  ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 117-118 ❐

Hoover, Handbook of coins of Macedon and its neighbors. Part II: Thrace, Skythia, and Taurike: sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, Pa. London 2017 p. 5. 24, nr. 1213 (drachm)  ❐

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