cn type 5977

Edition

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Mint

Abdera 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 360-350 BC
Classical Period  🔍

Obverse

Legend

ΑΒΔΗ

Design

Griffin leaping left.
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Reverse

Legend

ΕΠΙ ΖΗΝΩΝΟ

Design

Hermes standing right, wearing petasus, holding staff in right hand; all within incuse square.
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Symbol

kantharos (position: at the bottom right)

Persons

Magistrate

Zenon (Abdera) 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

Double siglos (tetradrachm) 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

23 mm (1x)

Average Weight

10.81 g (6x)

Axes

11 (1x)

Citation

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 259-260, nr. 447-448, 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. 69, nr. 92  (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 (355 BC)   ❐

editions

cn.abdera_thrace.1_ed.196 🔍

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cn type 5977, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/5977 [Last downloaded: 2025/12/05]

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