Æ22 - Alexander

Abdera, a Greek colonial city on the Thracian coast, struck bronze issues invoking Alexander's name and imagery well after his death as a way of anchoring local civic identity to Macedonian prestige. By the mid-third century the city had weathered repeated Thracian raids and shifting regional alliances, and associating municipal coinage with the Alexandrine tradition was as much political calculation as cultural habit. Abdera never recovered its classical-period prosperity after the Thracian king Abrupolis sacked it around 170 BC.