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Æ18
| Issuer | Agathopolis |
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| Year | 300 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Reverse description | Athena's owl standing right with head facing front, rendered in the Athenian iconographic tradition. To the right of the owl, the ethnic abbreviation ΑΓΑΘΟ appears in the field. Below the owl, a spearhead pointing right is depicted, serving as a civic symbol. The composition closely follows Athenian owl typology adapted for this Thracian city-state's autonomous bronze coinage. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΑΓΑΘΟ |
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Agathopolis was a minor Thracian coastal settlement whose civic coinage output was limited and is poorly documented in ancient sources — precisely why SNG Copenhagen 855 remains a key reference anchor for attributing these bronzes at all. The site's location on the Black Sea littoral placed it within the commercial orbit of larger Thracian and Greek colonial centers, though it never achieved the minting volume of nearby Apollonia or Mesembria.