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cn coin 9425

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CN Type 4647 🔍

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Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 475-450 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
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Design
Griffin seated left, right forepaw raised, with palmette-like curved upwards wings, tail curling and open beak with tongue protruding. Dotted line.
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Reverse
Design
Quadripartite incuse square divided by two lines, with dotted surfaces.
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Persons

Magistrate: Deo... 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Tetarte (drachm) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
15.1 mm
Weight
3.25 g
Owner

Museum August Kestner, Hannover, Hannover, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 1938.265

Literature

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 107-111 ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 106, pl. 6 ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 106-108, nr. 93-97, pl. 6 (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 9425, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_9425 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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