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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Thrace & Moesia| > |Abdera| > GS85198
Abdera, Thrace, c. 360 - 350 B.C.
|Abdera|, |Abdera,| |Thrace,| |c.| |360| |-| |350| |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.
GS85198. Silver tetrobol, May Abdera, Period VII, 413 (A287/P336); SNG Cop 331 (same dies); McClean II 4013 (same); AMNG II 115; BMC Thrace -, aVF/F, tight flan, light scratches, die wear, reverse double struck, Abdera (Greece) mint, weight 2.799g, maximum diameter 15.1mm, die axis 270o, magistrate Molpagores, c. 360 - 350 B.C.; obverse griffin springing left; reverse head of young Dionysos right, beardless, long hair, wearing a wreath of ivy with berries, in linear square frame, MOΛ-ΠA-ΓO-PΗΣ around starting above, slightly concave field; SOLD










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