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cn coin 7644

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CN Type 5846 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 395-360 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Griffin leaping left, forepart and forpaws raised, with feathered wings, tail curling and open beak.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΑΒΔΗ
Design
Bull's head and neck, left, within incuse square.
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Metrology
Denomination
triobol 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 12.3 mm / Min: 11.5 mm
Weight
1.59 g
Axis
7
Owner

BBAW, Berlin, de ❐

Provenience: SHH 4752; CNG 278E (25.04.2012) 6

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. 80, nr. 130 ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 72, nr. 51 ❐

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 346 ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 236, nr. 400 ❐

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. 236-237, nr. 400, pl. 19 (c. 411/410-386/385 BC, thaco-macedonian standard 2nd series)  ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 80-81, nr. 126, 128, 130 (c. 425-400 BC, triobol)  ❐

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

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cn coin 7644, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_7644 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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