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Tetradrachm - Zenodotos
| Issuer | Abdera |
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| Year | 450 BC - 425 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Griffin seated left in profile, depicted with straight, upswept wing and the left forepaw raised. The creature is rendered in the archaic Greek style with fine detail to the feathering and musculature. A bunch of grapes appears to the left in the field, serving as a civic symbol of Abdera. The design is set against a plain field with no legend. |
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| Reverse description | A quadripartite incuse square, raised in relief and divided into four triangular sections by diagonal grooves, occupying the central field within a broader shallow incuse square. The magistrate's name ZENODOTOS is inscribed in Greek letters distributed across the four quadrants of the incuse square, reading ZHN-OΔ-OT-OΣ, a characteristic feature of Abderite civic coinage identifying the issuing magistrate. The incuse technique reflects the archaic die-sinking tradition common to northern Aegean mints of the fifth century BC. |
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| Reverse lettering | ZHN-OΔ-OT-OΣ |
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