THRACE, Abdera. Circa 450-425 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 14.94 g, 2h). Smordo(s), son of (He)rmokal(les), magistrate. VF.

CNG Feature Auction 123
Lot: 36. Estimated: $ 5 000

Greek, Coin-in-Hand Video, Silver

Sold For $ 15 000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

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THRACE, Abdera. Circa 450-425 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 14.94 g, 2h). Smordo(s), son of (He)rmokal(les), magistrate. Griffin with curved wing seated left, raising forepaw; kantharos to lower left / EΠI ΣM-OPΔO TO PM-OKAΛ around raised quadripartite incuse square; all within shallow incuse square. May, Abdera, Period IV, Group LIII, 134a (A113/P110) = AMNG II 58.10a (this coin, illustrated by May); HGC 3, 1136; SNG Fitzwilliam 1638–9 (same obv. die); SNG Spencer-Churchill 100 (same obv. die). Toned, slight granularity, a couple of knocks on edge. VF. With a distinguished pedigree.

Ex Sotheby’s (7 March 1996), lot 68; Feuardent (9 June 1913), lot 140; Gustav Philipsen Collection (J. Hirsch XXV, 29 November 1909), lot 68. Reportedly ex Strauss Collection, October 1951.

This is the only appearance of a patronymic on a coin of Abdera (see O. Masson, “Quelques nomes de magistrats monétaires Grecs. IV. Noms de monétaires à Abdère et Maronée” in RN 984, p. 54).

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