THRACE, Abdera. Circa 346/5-336 BC. AR Tetradrachm – Double Siglos (25mm, 11.47 g, 1h). Persic standard. Pausanias, magistrate. Griffin couchant left on linear ground line; EΠI ΠAYΣA[NIAΣ] above and below / Laureate head of Apollo right; ABΔHPI-TEΩN flanking; all within shallow incuse square. May, Abdera, Period VII, 465 (A310/P369); AMNG II 139; CN Online Type 6057; HGC 3, 1210; SNG Fitzwilliam 1642 (same dies); Gillet 838 (same obv. die); Rhousopoulos 524 (same dies). Toned, light patches of horn silver, a couple of minor flan flaws on obverse. VF.
Ex Numismatica Ars Classica Spring Sale 2020 (25 May 2020), lot 193; Thomas Bentley Cederlind Estate (Classical Numismatic Group 102, 18 May 2016), lot 178; Numismatica Ars Classica 59 (4 April 2011), lot 1616.
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