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cn coin 7628

Connected to Type

CN Type 6709 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 311-280 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
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Legend obverse ΕΥΑΝ
Design
Griffin lying right on club, left forepaw raised, with feathered wings, tail curling and closed beak.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΑΒΔ-ΗΡ-ΙΤΕ-ΩΝ
Design
Head of (youthful) Apollo, right, within linear square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Euan...(2) 🔍

Metrology
Denomination
Dichalkon 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 13.2 mm / Min: 12.5 mm
Weight
2.35 g
Axis
12
Owner

BBAW, Berlin, de ❐

Provenience: SHH 537

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. 108, nr. 208 ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 75, nr. 82 ❐

Mušmov, Antičnitě Moneti na Balkanskija poluostrov i monetitě na bŭlgarskitě care, Sofija 1912 nr. 2461 ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 nr. 212-213 ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 212-213, nr. 178-191 (c. 311-280 BC, dichalkon)  ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 108, nr. 218 ❐

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cn coin 7628, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_7628 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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