cn coin 7616

Connected to Type

CN Type 7133 🔍

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

Design

Bull's head and neck, left, within incuse square.
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Metrology

Denomination

hemidrachm (triobol) 🔍
Standard: reduced Chian

Material

silver 🔍

Diameter

Max: 12.2 mm / Min: 11.8 mm

Weight

1.41 g

Axis

Owner

BBAW, Berlin, de ❐

Provenience: SHH 762; Herakles Numismatics, Perry Siegel (20.11.2001)

Literature

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 80, nr. 127 ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 nr. 49-50 ❐

Schwabacher, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : the Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Copenhagen 1942 nr. 342-347 ❐

Sear, Greek Coins and their Values, London 1994 p. 155, nr. 1531 ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 174, nr. 244-245, pl. 14 (c. 439/437-411/410 BC, May Thraco-Macedonian 2nd series) ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 117-119 ❐

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cn coin 7616, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_7616 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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