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cn coin 6599

Connected to Type

CN Type 5618 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 395-360 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 ΕΠΙ ΑΝΑΞΙΠΟΛΙΟΣ
Design
Laureate male head, right.
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Persons

Magistrate: Anaxipolis (III) 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Dichalkon 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
16 mm
Weight
4.73 g
Axis
12
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18246004

Provenience: 1906 Löbbecke - Vorbesitzer Löbbecke

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: ABD_2L_7_004o/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. 98, nr. 177,1  ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 213, nr. 286a  ❐

Literature

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 182, nr. 29 ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 213, nr. 285-286, pl. 16 (c. 411/410-386/385 BC.)  ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 182, nr. 29-30 (Dichalkon)  ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 98, nr. 177 ❐

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