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Æ - Amatokos type II
| Issuer | Odryssa, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 387 BC - 370 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Horse with reins prancing to the left, rendered in bold relief in the Thracian provincial style. The animal's mane is incised with short striated lines, and the reins are clearly visible across the neck. The foreleg is raised in a lively prancing posture. The field is plain and unlettered. |
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| Reverse description | A bipennis (labrys, double-bitted axe) depicted upright in the center of the field, with a broad symmetrical double blade rendered in bold relief. An ivy leaf appears in the upper field above the axe head. The retrograde or divided royal legend AMA T OKO is distributed around the axe in the field, referencing the Odrysian king Amatokos. |
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Amatokos I ruled the Odrysian kingdom during a period of sharp contraction following the fragmentation that set in after Seuthes I — the realm had splintered among competing dynasts, and Amatokos held only a portion of the territory his predecessors once commanded. That political instability makes a bronze issue of this weight unusual; most fragmentary Thracian dynasts of the period struck little or no coinage at all, and the existence of a second type attributed to Amatokos suggests a more organized administrative apparatus than his diminished kingdom might imply.