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Tetradrachm - Pithynnes
| Issuer | Abdera |
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| Year | 450 BC - 425 BC |
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| Value | Tetradrachm (4) |
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| Obverse description | Griffin seated left in profile, right foreleg raised in a striding pose, rendered in fine archaic style. To the left of the griffin, a bee depicted from above in flight, oriented downward to the right. The griffin's wings are folded along its body, and the overall composition is set within an unadorned field. The design reflects the characteristic Abderite coinage tradition of the mid-fifth century BC, with the griffin serving as the city's principal emblematic type. |
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| Reverse description | A shallow incuse square of quadripartite linear design occupies the entire reverse field, divided into four sections by a raised cross. The magistrate's name, rendered in archaic Greek characters, is inscribed around the central incuse square in the formula conventional to Abderite civic coinage, identifying the eponymous magistrate responsible for the issue. This incuse punch technique is characteristic of early Greek coinage from Thrace and the northern Aegean region. |
| Reverse script | Greek |
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