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cn coin 7658

Connected to Type

CN Type 5226 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 475-450 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Griffin seated left, right forepaw raised, with palmette-like curved upwards wings, tail curling and open beak with tongue protruding.
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Reverse
Design
Quadripartite incuse punch.
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Metrology
Denomination
Obol 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 9.7 mm / Min: 8.5 mm
Weight
0.51 g
Owner

BBAW, Berlin, de ❐

Provenience: SHH 1768; Herakles Numismatics, Perry Siegel (25.07.2002)

Literature

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 312-314 ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 148 ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 114, nr. 119-122, pl. 8 (492-473/470 BC.)  ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 107-110 ❐

Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 179-182 ❐

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cn coin 7658, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_7658 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/25]

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