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cn coin 6496

Connected to Type

CN Type 5945 🔍

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 curling and open beak. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΜΟΛ-ΠΑ-ΓΟ-ΡΗΣ
Design
Head of Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath in linear square; all within shallow incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Molpagores (II) 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Hemisiglos (drachm) 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
15 mm
Weight
2.64 g
Axis
6
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18241886

Provenience: 1900 Imhoof-Blumer - Vorbesitzer Imhoof-Blumer

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: ABD_2L_4_086o/r

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. 115,2  ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 253, nr. 408a, pl. 20  ❐

Literature

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 126-128 ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 252-255, nr. 406-410.413414.417, pl. 20 (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. 76-77, nr. 115, pl. 2, pic. 14 (c. 425-400 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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