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cn coin 7617

Connected to Type

CN Type 5827 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 395-360 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑΒΔ(Η)
Design
Griffin leaping left, forepart and forpaws raised, with feathered wings, tail curling and open beak.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΝΥΜΦΑ-ΓΟΡ-ΗΣ
Design
Dolphin swimming diagonally left within pearl frame. All within a shallow incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Nymphagores 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Drachm (tetrobol) 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 15.6 mm / Min: 15.1 mm
Weight
2.64 g
Axis
2
Owner

BBAW, Berlin, de ❐

Provenience: SHH 951

Literature

Schwabacher, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : the Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Copenhagen 1942 nr. 336 ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 nr. 376-390 ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 nr. 43-44 ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 231-234, nr. 376-390, pl. 19 (c. 411/410-386/385 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. 77, nr. 118 (c. 425-400 BC, drachm)  ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 119-126 ❐

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cn coin 7617, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_7617 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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