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cn coin 7633

Connected to Type

CN Type 5950 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 360-350 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
Legend obverse ΑΒΔ
Design
Griffin leaping left off capital of Ionic column, forepart and forpaws raised, with feathered wings, tail curling and open beak.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠΙ ΦΙΛΑ-ΙΟ
Design
Hermes standing right, wearing petasus and chlamys fixed over right shoulder, extending left hand; to right, astragalus; all within shallow incuse square.
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Symbol
astragalos (position: at the bottom right)
Persons

Magistrate: Philaios 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Hemisiglos (drachm) 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 15.8 mm / Min: 14 mm
Weight
2.83 g
Axis
6
Owner

BBAW, Berlin, de ❐

Provenience: SHH 1798; Colloseum Coin Exchange (27.08.2002)

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. 79, nr. 125 ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 71, nr. 46 ❐

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 337 ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 nr. 423-438 ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 126-128 ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 256-258, nr. 423-438, pl. 20 (c. 386/385-375 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. 79, nr. 125, pl. 2, pic. 28 (c. 425-400 BC)  ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 127 (354 BC)  ❐

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cn coin 7633, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_7633 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/23]

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