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cn coin 6633

Connected to Type

CN Type 6702 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 311-280 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Griffin lying right on club, with feathered wings, tail curling and closed beak; above, star with five rays.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΑΒΔ-ΗΡΙ-ΤΕ-ΩΝ
Design
Head of (youthful) Apollo, right, within linear square.
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Metrology
Denomination
Dichalkon 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
16 mm
Weight
4.70 g
Axis
11
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18246054

Provenience: 1858/19530 - Vorbesitzer Petermann

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: ABD_2L_7_053o/r

Citation

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 114, nr. 124  ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 110, nr. 228,4  ❐

Literature

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 210, nr. 155-158 ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 210, nr. 155-158 (c. 311-280 BC, 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. 110, nr. 228 ❐

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