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cn coin 7675

Connected to Type

CN Type 5528 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 415-395 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 ΝΙΚ-ΟΣΤΡΑΤΟΣ
Design
Naked warrior attacking right, wearing pilos, holding shield in outstretched left hand and spear in right hand to attack; within linear square and incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Nikostratos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 24 mm / Min: 22 mm
Weight
14.02 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: 219, BM 28

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. 65, nr. 82, pl. 2, pic. 5  ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 168, nr. 219, pl. 13  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 69, nr. 28  ❐

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. 168, nr. 219, pl. 13 (c. 439/437-411/410 BC, reduced Thraco-Macedonian standard)  ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 117-118 ❐

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cn coin 7675, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_7675 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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