cn type 5723

Mint

Abdera 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

c. 395-360 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Griffin leaping left.
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Reverse

Legend

ΠΡΩΤΗΣ

Design

Laureate head of Apollo, left, within linear square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Protes (II) 🔍

Metrology

Denomination

Drachm (tetrobol) 🔍
Standard: Persian

Material

silver 🔍

Diameter

Max: 14.7 mm / Min: 13 mm

Average Weight

2.77 g (11x)

Axes

2 (1x) 6 (1x)

Citation

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 222-223, nr. 324-329, pl. 17 (c. 411/410-386/385 BC, persic standard) ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 77, nr. 119, pl. 2, pic. 10 (c. 425-400 BC) ❐

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. 1217 (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.167 🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 5723, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/5723 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]