Tetradrachm / Double Siglos - Polykrates

Features

Issuer	Abdera (Thrace)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	346 BC - 336 BC
Value	2 Sigloi
Currency	Persic siglos/drachm
Composition	Silver
Weight	11.40 g
Diameter	24 mm
Shape	Round (irregular)
Technique	Hammered, Incuse
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 446487
References	May Abdera# 461 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# 136 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. , HGC 3.2# 1209 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. , CN type# 6019 Corpus Nummorum Online (https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/)

Obverse

Griffin couchant left on linear ground line; ABΔHPI above.

Script: Greek

Lettering: ABΔHPI

Reverse

Figure of Artemis standing facing on high base, wearing kalathos, holding laurel spray in right hand, bow in left; behind, stag standing left, nibbling at branch; EΠI ΠOΛYKPATOΣ flanking; all within shallow incuse square.

Script: Greek

Lettering: EΠI ΠOΛYKPATOΣ

Mint

Abdera, Thrace, modern-day Avdira, Greece

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (346 BC - 336 BC)

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