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cn coin 6581

Connected to Type

CN Type 6535 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 311-280 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Griffin lying left on club, left, with feathered wings, tail curling and open beak.
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Monogram
Monogram obverse (position: in exergue)
Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΑΒΔ-ΗΡΙ-ΤΕ-ΩΝ
Design
Laureate head of Apollo, right; within linear square.
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Metrology
Denomination
Tetrobol 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
12 mm
Weight
1.51 g
Axis
1
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18244210

Provenience: 1873 Gansauge - Vorbesitzer Gansauge

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: ABD_2L_7_054o/r

Citation

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 113, nr. 114  ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 105, nr. 210.1  ❐

Literature

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 141-145 ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 412, nr. 206-207, pl. 16, pic. 3 (c. 311-280 BC, tetrobol)  ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 106, nr. 210 (c. 352-323 BC)  ❐

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cn coin 6581, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6581 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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