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Chalkon

Issuer Abdera
Year 336 BC - 311 BC
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Diameter 10.0 mm
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Reverse script Greek
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Edge Plain
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Abdera's bronze coinage of this period reflects a city already past its political peak — the town had been sacked by the Triballi in 376 BC and never fully recovered its earlier prominence as one of the wealthiest ports of the northern Aegean. By the time these bronzes were struck, Macedonian hegemony under Philip II and then Alexander had fundamentally altered the autonomy of Thracian coastal cities, reducing local issues to small-denomination civic currency with limited regional reach.

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