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cn coin 6489

Connected to Type

CN Type 5611 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 395-360 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Griffin leaping left off capital of Ionic column, forepart and forpaws raised, with feathered wings, tail under hindlegs and open beak.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠΙ ΗΡΟ-ΦΑΝ-ΕΟΣ
Design
Head of (youthful) Hermes, left, wearing a flat petasus tied below his chin; in front caduceus. In linear square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Herophanes 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Tetrobol 🔍  
Standard: Aeginetan
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
15 mm
Weight
2.73 g
Axis
10
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18241801

Provenience: 1875 Prokesch-Osten - Vorbesitzer Prokesch von Osten

Citation

Prokesch-Osten, Autonome thrakische Münzen der Sammlung Prokesch-Osten 4, 1872 p. 191, nr. 32  ❐

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 107, nr. 72, pl. 4, pic. 39  ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 75, nr. 111,1, pl. 2, pic. 11  ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 210, nr. 278a  ❐

Literature

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

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 210-211, nr. 277-280, pl. 15 (c. 411/410-386/385 BC, aeginetan 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 6489, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6489 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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