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cn type 5609

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 395-360 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Griffin leaping left.
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Reverse
Legend
ΗΡΟΦΑΝΗΣ
Design
Head of Hermes, left, wearing petasus; all within incuse square.
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Symbol
caduceus (position: at the bottom left)
Persons

Magistrate: Herophanes 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Drachm (tetrobol) 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Average Weight
2.28 g (1x)
Citation

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 210, nr. 276, pl. 15  (c. 411/410-386/385 BC, persic standard)  ❐

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. 24, nr. 1214  (drachm)  ❐

Literature

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 119-126 ❐

editions

cn.abdera_thrace.1_ed.161  🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 5609, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/5609 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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