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cn type 4402

Edition
cn.abdera_thrace.1_ed.15
Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 520-500 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Griffin standing left, right forepaw raised.
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Symbol
eagle (position: at the bottom left)
Reverse
Design
Quadripartite incuse square.
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Metrology
Denomination
Stater (tetradrachm) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 23 mm / Min: 20.1 mm
Average Weight
14.98 g (2x)
Citation

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 61, nr. 9-10  (540/535-520/515 BC, tetradrachem, abderitan standard)  ❐

Fritze, Die autonomen Münzen von Abdera. Eine chronologische Studie 3, 1909 p. 11, nr. 3 ε, pl. 3, pic. 29  ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 125, nr. r, pic. 11  ❐

Dressel and Regling, Zwei ägyptische Funde altgriechischer Silbermünzen 37, 1927 p. 93 f., nr. 153, pl. 3  ❐

Literature

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

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

editions

cn.abdera_thrace.1_ed.15  🔍

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cn type 4402, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/cn.abdera_thrace.1_ed.15 [Last downloaded: 2026/04/22]

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