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cn coin 7674

Connected to Type

CN Type 5670 🔍

Mint

Abdera 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

c. 395-360 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Griffin seated left, right forepaw raised, with plain curved wings, tail curling and open beak with tongue protruding. Linear border.
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Reverse

Legend

ΕΥΑ-ΓΩΝ

Design

Prize amphora on ornamental stand; within linear square and incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Euagon 🔍

Metrology

Denomination

stater 🔍
Standard: Aeginetan

Material

silver 🔍

Diameter

Max: 23 mm / Min: 21 mm

Weight

12.74 g

Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 293, London 206

Citation

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 69, nr. 91.1, pl. 3, pic. 3 ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 214, nr. 293, pl. 16 ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 70, nr. 33 ❐

Literature

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. 214-215, nr. 293-295 (c. 411/410-386/385 BC., aeginetan 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 ❐

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cn coin 7674, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_7674 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/23]

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