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Abydos (BC 500-480) Trihemiobol599 viewsca 500-480 BC. AR Diobol? (9mm, 1.32g). Eagle standing left / Quadripartite incuse square. VF, porous. Alighieri Coll.
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Abydos (BC 500-480) Trihemiobol496 viewsca 500-480 BC. AR Trihemiobol? (1.2g, 10mm). Eagle standing left / Quadripartite incuse square.
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Abydos (BC 500-480) Triobol350 viewsBefore 480 BC. AR Triobol (20mm, 3.1g). Eagle standing left / Quadripartite incuse square. VF.
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Abydos (BC 510-480) Hemiobol626 viewsca 500-480 BC. AR Hemiobol (7mm, 0.40g). Eagle standing left / Rough incuse square.
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Abydos (BC 510-480) Obol734 viewsca 500-480 BC. AR Obol? (8mm, 0.80g). Eagle standing left / Rough square incuse. VF, a little porous.
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Abydos (BC 510-480) Tetartemorion631 views6th-5th century BC. AR Tetartemorion (6mm, 0.2g). Head of eagle left / Striated pattern square incuse. VF.
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Abydos (BC 520-490) EL 1/3 Stater4734 viewsca 500 BC. EL Trite - 1/3 Stater (4.66g). Eagle standing left, with closed wings, looking backwards / Rough incuse punch.
Of the highest rarity, apparently only the second specimen known. Struck on a narrow flan, otherwise aEF.
Attributing uninscribed electrum coins of this period without assured badges is extremely difficult, as is with this trite. Abydos is an obvious possibility since the eagle was a common feature of its coinage. For other common coins see an electrum stater in the British Museum catalogue of Ionia (pl. I, no. 23) (eagle of similar proportions and identical pose, perched upon what is described as a hare). See also some early silver fractions attributed to Abydos with incuse punch reverses (SNG Cop. 1-2; SNG Klein 292), though they show a bird of a different character, without its head reverted.
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