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cn type 5674

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 395-360 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Griffin seated left, right forepaw raised.
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Reverse
Legend
ΚΛΕΑΝΤΙΔΗΣ
Design
Bull's head and neck, right, a taenia suspended on his left horn. All within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Kleantides 🔍

Metrology
Denomination
Drachm (tetrobol) 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 15.4 mm / Min: 14 mm
Average Weight
2.60 g (13x)
Axes
5 (1x) 11 (1x) 12 (1x)
Citation

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 216-217, nr. 298-300, pl. 16  (c. 411/410-386/385 BC, persic standard)  ❐

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 ❐

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 (drachm, persic standard)  ❐

editions

cn.abdera_thrace.1_ed.162  🔍

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cn type 5674, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/5674 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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