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cn coin 7627

Connected to Type

CN Type 6788 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 300-250 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
Legend obverse ΑΒΔΗ//ΡΙΤΩΝ
Design
Griffin lying left, with feathered wings, tail under hindlegs and closed beak. Ground line.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠΙ -ΕΡΜΟ-ΣΤΡ-ΑΤΟΥ
Design
Laureate head of Apollo, right; within linear square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Hermostratos 🔍

Metrology
Denomination
Hemiobol 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 16.6 mm / Min: 16 mm
Weight
6.39 g
Axis
5
Owner

BBAW, Berlin, de ❐

Provenience: SHH 509; Theresa Darling WCNC (28.04.2001)

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. 99, nr. 181 ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 75, nr. 89 ❐

Mušmov, Antičnitě Moneti na Balkanskija poluostrov i monetitě na bŭlgarskitě care, Sofija 1912 nr. 2463 ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 nr. 147-148 ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 263-266, nr. 499-528 (1st half of the 3rd c. BC)  ❐

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cn coin 7627, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_7627 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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