Octadrachm

Features

Issuer	Abdera (Thrace)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	500 BC - 475 BC
Value	Octadrachm (8)
Currency	Chian-Rhodian drachm
Composition	Srebro
Weight	28.51 g
Diameter	27.5 mm
Shape	Okrągły (nieregularny)
Technique	Młotkowana, Incuse
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 170628
References	May Abdera# 37-38 John M. F. May, Colin Mackennal Kraay (ed.), Gilbert Kenneth Jenkins (ed.); 1966. The coinage of Abdera (540-345 B.C.). Royal Numismatic Society, London, United Kingdom. , AMNG II# 13 Friedrich Münzer, Max L. Strack, Friedrich Imhoof-Blumer (ed.); 1912. Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands / Band 2.1. Die antiken Münzen Thrakien: Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos. Georg Reimer, Berlin, Germany. , CN type# 4461 Corpus Nummorum Online (https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/) , Rhousopoulos# 508 Jacob Hirsch; 1905. Auctions-Catalog einer hochbedeutenden Sammlung Griechischer Münzen: aus dem Nachlasse eines bekannten Archäologen = Auctions catalog of a highly important collection of Greek coins. Munich, Bavaria, Germany. , ACGC# 529 Colin Mackennal Kraay; 1976. Archaic and Classical Greek Coins. University of California Press, Oakland, California, United States. , HGC 3.2# 1126 Oliver D. Hoover; 2017. Handbook of Coins of Macedon and Its Neighbors / Volume 3, Part 2. Thrace, Skythia, and Taurike: Sixth to First Centuries BC. Classical Numismatic Group, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States / London, United Kingdom. , De Sartiges# 159 D.A. Longuet (ed.). Collection du Vicomte de Sartiges: Series Grecque et Romaine en 1910 ainsi que les acquisitions depuis cette date = Collection of the Vicomte de Sartiges. Paris, France.

Obverse

Gryf siedzący po lewej, unoszący lewą przednią nogę; kiść winogron i Δ po lewej. Automatically translated

Reverse

Czworokątny kwadrat z wcięciem. Automatically translated

Mint

Abdera, Thrace, modern-day Avdira, Greece

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (500 BC - 475 BC)							$ 4600

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Past sales

Pictures	Sale	Date	Grade	Sold price
	Numismatik Naumann GmbH Auction 149 Lot 83	2 Feb 2025	VF	USD 4645.99 (EUR 4000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Numismatik Naumann GmbH
	CNG Auction 118 Lot 99	13 Sep 2021	VF	USD 13 000.00 (+ buyer's premium)
Ex Ponterio 124 (17 January 2003), lot 381
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.
	Numismatik Naumann GmbH Auction 107 Lot 61	5 Sep 2021	VF	USD 4065.24 (EUR 3500.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Numismatik Naumann GmbH
	CNG Auction 102 Lot 177	18 May 2016	VF	USD 5000.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.
	CNG Auction 97 Lot 56	17 Sep 2014	VF	USD 6500.00 (+ buyer's premium)
Ex Stack’s, 3 December 1996, lot 51
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.
	CNG Triton V Lot 1324	16 Jan 2002	VF	USD 2400.00 (+ buyer's premium)
Ex Frank S. Benson Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 3-11 February 1909), lot 446; Rhousopoulos Collection (Hirsch Auktion XIII, 15 May 1905), lot 508 = Rhousopoulos 508
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.