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cn type 4431

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Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 520-500 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
Α
Design
Griffin seated left, right forepaw raised; six pellets.
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Reverse
Design
Quadripartite incuse square.
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Metrology
Denomination
Distater (octadrachm) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
27 mm (1x)
Average Weight
28.58 g (2x)
Citation

Imhoof-Blumer, Monnaies grecques, Paris 1883 p. 38, nr. 1  ❐

Fritze, Die autonomen Münzen von Abdera. Eine chronologische Studie 3, 1909 p. 11 ff., nr. 2, pl. 3, pic. 22  ❐

Svoronos, L'Hellénisme primitif de la Macédoine prouvé par la numismatique et l'or du Pangée, Paris 1919 p. 63, nr. 5, pl. 15, pic. 5  ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 122, nr. f, pl. 1, pic. 120,1  ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 65, nr. 24-25, pl. 2  (540/535-520/515 BC.)  ❐

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.)  ❐

Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 179-182 ❐

editions

cn.abdera_thrace.1_ed.1  🔍

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cn type 4431, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/4431 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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