Abdera, stater (CN type 20390)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
ca. 395-360 v. Chr.
Issuing entity
Thracestater in silver struck at Abdera in Thrace dated ca. 395-360 v. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 20390. Obverse: Griffin leaping left. Reverse: Dolphin swimming diagonally left within linear frame. All within a shallow incuse square.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- silver
- Denomination
- stater
- Recorded mean weight
- 12.22 g (mean of 1 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Abdera
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
- Weight standard
- Aeginetan
Design
- Obverse type
- Griffin leaping left.
- Reverse type
- Dolphin swimming diagonally left within linear frame. All within a shallow incuse square.
- Obverse legend
- ΑΒΔ(Η)
- Reverse legend
- ΠΡΟΜΗΘΙΔΗΣ
Identification
- Period
- Classical Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/20390
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 20390
Documentation checklist
- Denomination
- Documented
- Issue or mint date
- Documented
- Material
- Documented
- Weight
- Documented
- Mint or printer
- Documented
- Mint or printer mark
- Research required
- Catalogue reference
- Documented
- Licensed photograph
- Documented
Catalogue references
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 119-126
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 226, nr. 343
Research required
- Diameter not recorded in the source corpus
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution