cn type 4456

Edition

cn.abdera_thrace.1_ed.22

Mint

Abdera 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 500-475 BC
Archaic Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Griffin seated left, right forepaw raised.

Symbol

ivy leaf (position: at the bottom left)

Reverse

Design

Quadripartite incuse square.

Metrology

Denomination

Distater (octadrachm) 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Average Weight

28.58 g (4x)

Citation

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 74, nr. 33 ❐

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

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 ❐

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

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