Legend
Mint
Hoard
Findspot

cn coin 7631

Connected to Type

CN Type 6710 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 311-280 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
Legend obverse ΜΕΝΑΝ
Design
Griffin lying right on club, left forepaw raised, with feathered wings, tail curling and closed beak.
go to the NLP result of this description
Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΑΒΔ-ΗΡΙ-ΤΕ-ΩΝ
Design
Laureate head of Apollo, right; within linear square.
go to the NLP result of this description
Persons

Magistrate: Menan- 🔍

Metrology
Denomination
Dichalkon 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 15.1 mm / Min: 13.8 mm
Weight
3.70 g
Axis
12
Owner

BBAW, Berlin, de ❐

Provenience: SHH 1094; Dimitri Genov AAH (04.02.2002)

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. 221 ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 75, nr. 83 ❐

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 374 ❐

Mušmov, Antičnitě Moneti na Balkanskija poluostrov i monetitě na bŭlgarskitě care, Sofija 1912 nr. 2437 ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 214-215 ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 214-215, nr. 192-212 (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. 221 ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 7631, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_7631 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

License:

This record is licensed under: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike

Contact

Comments or information about this coin? Please email us