cn type 4429

Edition

cn.abdera_thrace.1_ed.8

Mint

Abdera 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 520-500 BC
Archaic Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Griffin seated left, right forepaw raised.
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Symbol

goose (position: at the bottom left)

Reverse

Design

Quadripartite incuse square.
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Metrology

Denomination

Distater (octadrachm) 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Citation

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 64, nr. 21  (540/535-520/515 BC, octadrachm, abderitan standard)  ❐

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.8 🔍

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cn type 4429, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/cn.abdera_thrace.1_ed.8 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/16]

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