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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Thrace & Moesia| > |Abdera| > SH42186
Abdera, Thrace, c. 365 - 346 B.C.
|Abdera|, |Abdera,| |Thrace,| |c.| |365| |-| |346| |B.C.|, Abdera was sacked by Philip II of Macedon in 350 B.C. and was absorbed in to Philip's empire. According to May, Philip closed the mint in 346 B.C. The city was later sacked and controlled by Lysimachos of Thrace, the Seleucids, the Ptolemies, again the Macedonians, Eumenes II of Pergamon and finally the Romans.
SH42186. Silver stater, Possibly an ancient counterfeit, cf. May Abdera 464 ff. (none retrograde); SGCV I 1551 (same), VF, porosity around edges, weight 6.108g, maximum diameter 22.8mm, die axis 180o, obverse EΠI above, ΠAYΣANIΩ in exergue (all retrograde), recumbent griffin right; the entire obverse is retrograde (the griffin is normally left); reverse ABΔHPI/EΩN, laureate head of Apollo right, within incuse square; ex Gorny and Mosch; SOLD










REFERENCES

Campbell, W. Greek and Roman Plated Coins. ANSNNM 75. (New York, 1933).
Metcalf, W. "Two Alexandrian Hoards" in RBN CXXII (1976), pp. 65 - 77, & pls. 1 - 2.

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