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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Thrace & Moesia| > |Abdera| > GS66822
Abdera, Thrace, 386 - 375 B.C.
|Abdera|, |Abdera,| |Thrace,| |386| |-| |375| |B.C.|, A wealthy city and thus a valuable prize, Abdera was repeatedly sacked: by the Triballi in 376 B.C., Philip II of Macedon in 350 B.C.; later by Lysimachos of Thrace, the Seleucids, the Ptolemies, and again by the Macedonians. In 170 B.C., the Roman armies and those of Eumenes II of Pergamon besieged and sacked it.
GS66822. Silver drachm, May Abdera 405 (A282/P331), VF, sensuous style, Abdera (Greece) mint, weight 2.875g, maximum diameter 14.5mm, die axis 180o, 386 - 375 B.C.; obverse griffin springing left, spiky bristle mane, raised curled tail; reverse MOΛΠAΓOΠHΣ, head of young Dionysos left, wearing wreath of ivy with berries clustered over brow, hair in long loses locks down the back of neck with single ringlet before ear, slightly concave field; SOLD




  






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Bernhart, M. "Dionysos und seine Familie auf griechischen Münzen" in JNG I (1949).


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