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cn type 5945

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Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 360-350 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Griffin leaping left.
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Reverse
Legend
ΜΟΛΠΑΓΟΡ(ΗΣ,ΕΩ)
Design
Head of Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath in linear square; all within shallow incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Molpagores (II) 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Hemisiglos (drachm) 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 15.9 mm / Min: 14.6 mm
Average Weight
2.74 g (16x)
Axes
6 (2x) 8 (1x)
Citation

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 252-255, nr. 406-410.413414.417, pl. 20  (c. 386/385-375 BC)  ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 76-77, nr. 115, pl. 2, pic. 14  (c. 425-400 BC)  ❐

Literature

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 127 ❐

editions

cn.abdera_thrace.1_ed.202  🔍

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cn type 5945, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/5945 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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