cn type 4424

Edition

cn.abdera_thrace.1_ed.5

Mint

Abdera 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 520-500 BC
Archaic Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Griffin seated left, right forepaw raised.
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Reverse

Design

Quadripartite incuse square.
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Metrology

Denomination

Distater (octadrachm) 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Average Weight

29.45 g (1x)

Citation

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 63, nr. 13  (540/535-520/515 BC, octadrachm, abderitan 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. 123, nr. h, pl. 120, pic. 5  ❐

Literature

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 148 (Date.)   ❐

Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 179-182 (red. chian standard)   ❐

editions

cn.abdera_thrace.1_ed.5 🔍

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