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cn coin 7641

Connected to Type

CN Type 5780 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 395-360 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
Legend obverse ΑΒΔ
Design
Griffin leaping left, forepart and forpaws raised, with feathered wings, tail curling and open beak.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠΙ - ΠΡΩ-ΤΕΩ
Design
Three ears of corn with leaves standing upright; within linear square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Protes (III) 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Drachm (tetrobol) 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 14.6 mm / Min: 14.2 mm
Weight
2.82 g
Axis
12
Owner

BBAW, Berlin, de ❐

Provenience: SHH 1825; Claudia Karon (22.09.2002)

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. 78, nr. 124 ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 71, nr. 45 ❐

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 340-341 ❐

Sear, Greek Coins and their Values, London 1994 p. 156, nr. 1546 ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 228-231, nr. 353-374 ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 119-126 ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 228-231, nr. 352-374, pl. 18 (c. 411/410-386/385 BC, persic standard)  ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 119-126 (ca. 395-360 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. 78, nr. 124, pl. 2, pic. 8 (c. 425-400 BC, drachm)  ❐

Hoover, Handbook of coins of Macedon and its neighbors. Part II: Thrace, Skythia, and Taurike: sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, Pa. London 2017 p. 24, nr. 1218 (drachm)  ❐

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cn coin 7641, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_7641 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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