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Tetradrachm of Abdera with seated griffin, struck under Sym[...]

Greek
Late Archaic or Early Classical Period
492–473/470 B.C.
Mint: Thrace, Abdera

Medium/Technique Silver
Dimensions Diameter: 27 mm. Weight: 14.85 gm.
Credit Line Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.581
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ClassificationsNumismaticsCoins

Catalogue Raisonné Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 0748.
DescriptionObverse: Griffin sitting up to left with raised wings.
Inscription in Greek below.
Beaded border.
Reverse: Incuse square divided into four squares by two raised cross lines.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: Canon Greenwell Collection; July 1902: acquired from Canon Greenwell Collection by Edward Perry Warren (Regling, Die Griechischen Münzen der Sammlung Warren, no. 435); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren