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Mint

Hoard

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cn type 7102

Mint

Abdera 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

98-117 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse

Legend

ΑV ΤΡΑ Κ ϹΕΒΑ

Design

Laureate head of Trajan, right.
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Reverse

Legend

ΑΒΔΗΡΕΙΤΑΙ

Design

Winged Nike standing left on base, holding laurel wreath and palm branch.
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Persons

Sitter: Trajan 🔍

Metrology

Denomination

semis 🔍

Material

bronze 🔍

Diameter

17 mm (2x)

Average Weight

2.94 g (2x)

Axes

5 (1x)

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. 119, nr. 251 ❐

Amandry et al., RPC III: Roman Provincial Coinage. Vol. III: Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian (AD 96-138), London : Paris 2015 p. 87, nr. 669 (Dated before 102 AD: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/669) ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 11, nr. 18 ❐

Literature

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 338,341, nr. 893-896 (Denomiantion A) ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/669 ❐

editions

cn.abdera_thrace.1_ed.347 🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 7102, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/7102 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]