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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Thrace & Moesia| > |Abdera| > SH13851
Abdera, Thrace, 425 - 400 B.C.
|Abdera|, |Abdera,| |Thrace,| |425| |-| |400| |B.C.|, Abdera rose to be a place of considerable importance and wealth when, in 544 B.C., the majority of the population of Teos relocated there rather than submit to the Persian conqueror. The griffin on coins of Abdera is copied from the coins of the mother-city Teos.
SH13851. Silver triobol, May Abdera 338; BMC Thrace p. 72, 52, VF, Abdera (Greece) mint, weight 1.173g, maximum diameter 13.0mm, die axis 165o, 425 - 400 B.C.; obverse griffin with pointed wings, recumbent left; reverse bull's head in incuse square, ΠPΩT to left, Η above, Σ below; SOLD










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