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Drachm of Abdera with seated griffin, struck under Hero[...]
Greek
Late Archaic or Early Classical Period
492–473/470 B.C.
Mint: Thrace, Abdera
Medium/Technique
Silver
Dimensions
Diameter: 15 mm. Weight: 3.28 gm.
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.583
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CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
Catalogue Raisonné
Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 0746.
DescriptionObverse: Griffin seated to left, with curved raised wings, right foreleg raised.
Inscription in Greek under right foreleg.
Beaded border
Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square.
Inscription in Greek under right foreleg.
Beaded border
Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: James Whittall Collection; by 1884: with Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 13 Wellington Street, Strand, London (auction of the James Whittall Collection, July 10ff., 1884, lot 255 [not illustrated]); by date unknown: Canon Greenwell Collection; July 1902: acquired from Canon Greenwell Collection by Edward Perry Warren (Regling, Die Griechischen Münzen der Sammlung Warren, no. 437); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren