cn type 5831

Mint

Abdera 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

c. 395-360 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse

Legend

ΑΒΔΗ

Design

Griffin seated left.
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Symbol

cicada (position: on the left)

Reverse

Legend

ΕΠΙ ΦΙΛΑΔΟΣ

Design

Nude Heracles seated left on rock, head facing, rock covered with a lion skin, holding club in his right hand; all within a shallow incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Philas 🔍

Metrology

Denomination

stater 🔍
Standard: Aeginetan

Material

silver 🔍

Diameter

Max: 24.5 mm / Min: 23 mm

Average Weight

12.55 g (15x)

Axes

5 (1x) 6 (2x) 7 (1x)

Public Commentary

Of this type a series of modern forgeries is known.

Citation

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 234-235, nr. 391-397/1, pl. 19 (c. 411/410-386/385 BC, aeginetic standard) ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 72, nr. 105, pl. 11, pic. 40 (c. 425-400 BC, tetradrachm) ❐

Literature

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 119-126 ❐

editions

cn.abdera_thrace.1_ed.153 🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 5831, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/5831 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]