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cn type 4428

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Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 520-500 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Griffin seated left, right forepaw raised.
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Reverse
Design
Quadripartite incuse square.
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Metrology
Denomination
Hemistater (didrachm) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
Diameter
Max: 19 mm / Min: 16 mm
Average Weight
7.34 g (2x)
Citation

Fritze, Die autonomen Münzen von Abdera. Eine chronologische Studie 3, 1909 p. 11, nr. 5 v, pl. 3, pic. 25 

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 123, nr. k, pic. 10 

Dressel and Regling, Zwei ägyptische Funde altgriechischer Silbermünzen 37, 1927 p. 237 f., nr. 27, pl. 8, pic. 3 

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 64, nr. 18-19, pl. 2  (540/535-520/515 BC, didrachm, abderitan standard) 

Literature

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

Thompson et al., An inventory of Greek coin hoards, New York 1973 nr. 1639

Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 179-182 (red. chian standard) 

editions

cn.abdera_thrace.1_ed.16  🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 4428, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/4428 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/25]

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