cn type 4456

Mint

Abdera 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

c. 500-475 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Griffin seated left, right forepaw raised.
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Symbol

ivy leaf (position: at the bottom left)

Reverse

Design

Quadripartite incuse square.
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Metrology

Denomination

Distater (octadrachm) 🔍
Standard: reduced Chian

Material

silver 🔍

Average Weight

28.58 g (4x)

Citation

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 74, nr. 33 (520/515-492 BC. May reads ΣΙ on the obverse.) ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 65, nr. 1 (On the obverse ΣΙ ?) ❐

Literature

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 103-107 (Ivy leaf instead of the legend ΣΙ.) ❐

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

editions

cn.abdera_thrace.1_ed.22 🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 4456, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/4456 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]