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cn type 5509

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Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 415-395 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Griffin seated left, right forepaw raised.
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Reverse
Legend
ΑΝΑΞΙΔΙΚΟΣ
Design
Head of a he-goat, left, in linear square frame; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Anaxidikos (I) 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Drachm (tetrobol) 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 15 mm / Min: 14 mm
Average Weight
2.65 g (13x)
Axes
1 (1x) 3 (1x) 6 (1x) 12 (1x)
Citation

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 164-166, nr. 207-214, pl. 13  (c. 439/437-411/410 BC, persic tetrobol)  ❐

Hoover, Handbook of coins of Macedon and its neighbors. Part II: Thrace, Skythia, and Taurike: sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, Pa. London 2017 p. 5. 24, nr. 1213  (drachm)  ❐

Literature

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 117-118 ❐

editions

cn.abdera_thrace.1_ed.129  🔍

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cn type 5509, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/5509 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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