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| Issuer | Tragilos |
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| Year | 420 BC - 400 BC |
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| Shape | Square (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | A quadripartite wheel formed by two intersecting lines dividing the square flan into four equal quadrants, each containing one letter of the civic abbreviation TPAI, reading clockwise from upper left. The bold, deeply incuse Greek capitals are arranged symmetrically within the spokes of the wheel, a device commonly employed by Macedonian city-states as a civic emblem on their earliest bronze coinage. The overall design is stark and emblematic, characteristic of the late 5th-century issues of Tragilos. |
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| Reverse lettering | T P A I (Translation: Tragilos) |
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Tragilos was a small settlement in the Strymonic Gulf region of Macedonia, and its independent coinage is attested for only a brief window before the city was absorbed into the expanding Macedonian sphere under Archelaus and his successors. Issues of this size — the smallest denominations in the civic series — circulated locally at a time when the region was contested between Athenian colonial interests and Macedonian consolidation. The SNG ANS reference ties this piece to a handful of known specimens, making the type genuinely scarce in any condition.