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cn coin 7639

Connected to Type

CN Type 6391 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 336-311 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
Legend obverse ΑΒΔΗΡ//ΙΤΕΩΝ
Design
Griffin lying left, right forepaw raised, with feathered wings, tail curling and closed beak.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠΙ - ΟΜ-ΗΡ-ΟΥ
Design
Laureate head of Apollo, right; within linear square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Homeros 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Hemisiglos (drachm) 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 15.8 mm / Min: 14.2 mm
Weight
2.34 g
Axis
7
Owner

BBAW, Berlin, de ❐

Provenience: SHH 520; acquired 15.09.2001

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. 94, nr. 154 ❐

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 360 ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 293, nr. 545-546 ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 134-139 ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 293, nr. 546, pl. 24 (c. 365/350-350/345 BC)  ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 388-389, nr. 4-16 ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 94-95, nr. 167 (c. 390-352 BC)  ❐

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cn coin 7639, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_7639 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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