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cn coin 6658

Connected to Type

CN Type 7025 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 250-150 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Male head with diadem, winged, right.
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Reverse
Legend
ΑΒΔΗΡΙΤΩΝ
Design
Griffin lying left, right forepaw raised.
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Symbol
eight-rayed star (position: on the left)
Metrology
Denomination
Chalkous 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
19 mm
Weight
4.66 g
Axis
11
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18246107

Provenience: 1928 Bernhard-Imhoof - Vorbesitzer Bernhard-Imhoof

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: ABD_2L_8_042o/r

Public Commentary

http://numismatics.org/pco/id/cpe.1_2.B408 Dort Vorderseitenkopf als Ptolemaios III. identifiziert und 246-222 v. Chr. datiert. There head on obverse identified as Ptolemaios III. and dated 246-222 BC.

Citation

Imhoof-Blumer, Zur griechischen und römischen Münzkunde, Genf 1908 p. 252, pl. 9, pic. 9  ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 113-114, nr. 237,14a, pl. 3, pic. 27  ❐

Literature

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 295-298, nr. 708-746 ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 113-114, nr. 237 (c. 240-201 BC, Ptolemaios III.-V.?)  ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 295-304, nr. 708-810 (2nd half of 3rd c. to 1rst half of 2nd c. BC, chalkous)  ❐

Lorber, Coins of the Ptolemaic Empire. Part I: Ptolemy I through Ptolemy IV, volume 1-2, New York 2018 p. 98, nr. B408 (Head on obverse idetified as Ptolemaios III. and therefor dated 246-222 BC.)  ❐

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