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cn coin 7293

Connected to Type

CN Type 5509 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 415-395 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Griffin leaping left, forepart and forpaws raised, with feathered wings, tail curling and open beak.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΑΝΑ-ΞΙ-ΔΙ-ΚΟΣ
Design
Head of a he-goat, left, in linear square frame; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Anaxidikos (I) 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Drachm (tetrobol) 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 15 mm / Min: 14 mm
Weight
2.60 g
Axis
1
Owner

Institut für Klassische Archäologie, Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 844

Citation

Mannsperger and Balluff, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : Deutschland [1] Münzsammlung der Universität Tübingen H. 2 Taurische Chersones - Korkyra: Nr. 731 - 1542, 1982 nr. 844  ❐

Literature

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 164, nr. 208 ❐

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 327 ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 nr. 109 ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 164-166, nr. 207-214, pl. 13 (c. 439/437-411/410 BC, persic tetrobol)  ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 117-118 ❐

Hoover, Handbook of coins of Macedon and its neighbors. Part II: Thrace, Skythia, and Taurike: sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, Pa. London 2017 p. 5. 24, nr. 1213 (drachm)  ❐

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