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cn coin 69107

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CN Type 4434 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 520-500 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Griffin seated left.
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Reverse
Design
Quadripartite incuse square.
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Metrology
Denomination
Obol 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
9 mm
Weight
0.59 g
Axis
11
Owner

Kunstsammlungen der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: M 1152

Provenience: G 59/14 (Welz 1966; ex Cahn [07.06.1957])

Literature

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 66, nr. 28, pl. 2 (540/535-520/515 BC.)  ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 148 (Date.)  ❐

Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 179-182 ❐

Web Reference: https://mk-bochum.ikmk.net/object?id=ID1888 ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 69107, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_69107 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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