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cn coin 6660

Connected to Type

CN Type 6778 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 300-250 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Laureate head of Apollo, right. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠΙ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ // ΑΒΔΗΡΙΤΩΝ
Design
Griffin lying left, right forepaw raised, with feathered wings, tail curling and closed beak; above, grain ear. Border of dots.
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Persons

Magistrate: Alexandros (2) 🔍

Metrology
Denomination
Obol 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
22 mm
Weight
6.88 g
Axis
12
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18246111

Provenience: 1878 Rauch - Vorbesitzer Rauch

Citation

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 117, nr. 137  ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 115, nr. 238,2  ❐

Literature

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 251-253, nr. 416-425 ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 251-254, nr. 416-433 (1st half of the 3rd c. BC)  ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 115, nr. 238 ❐

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