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cn coin 6493

Connected to Type

CN Type 5674 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 395-360 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Griffin seated left, right forepaw raised, with plain curved wings, tail curling and open beak with tongue protruding.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse Κ-ΛΕΑ-Ν-ΤΙ-ΔΗΣ
Design
Bull's head and neck, right, a taenia suspended on his left horn. All within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Kleantides 🔍

Metrology
Denomination
Drachm (tetrobol) 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
15 mm
Weight
2.45 g
Axis
12
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18241862

Provenience: 1900 Imhoof-Blumer - Vorbesitzer Imhoof-Blumer

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. 76, nr. 114,3  ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 216, nr. 298b  ❐

Literature

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 119-126 ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 216-217, nr. 298-300, pl. 16 (c. 411/410-386/385 BC, persic 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 ❐

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. 24 (drachm, persic standard)  ❐

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cn coin 6493, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6493 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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