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cn coin 6643

Connected to Type

CN Type 7019 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 250-150 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Hermes, left, wearing petasus. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠΙ ΔΙΟΝΥΣ-Α
Design
Griffin seated left, right forepaw slightly raised, with feathered wings, tail under hindlegs and closed beak; below right forepaw, monogram.
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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: at the bottom left)
Persons

Magistrate: Dionysas (2) 🔍

Metrology
Denomination
Dichalkon 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
16 mm
Weight
2.28 g
Axis
4
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18246067

Provenience: 1868/28804 - Veräusserer Firma Samuel Egger

Citation

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 115, nr. 127  ❐

Fritze, Die autonomen Münzen von Abdera. Eine chronologische Studie 3, 1909 pl. 3, pic. 16  ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 112, nr. 232  ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 287, nr. 630b  ❐

Literature

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 287, nr. 650-633 (2nd half of the 3rd c. to 1rst half of the 2. c. 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. 112, nr. 232 (c. 281-200 BC)  ❐

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