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Dichalkon - Cersobleptes
| Issuer | Odryssa, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 359 BC - 340 BC |
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| Diameter | 13 mm |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Cersobleptes ruled the Odrysian kingdom under constant pressure — his father Cotys I was assassinated in 358 BC, leaving three rival claimants to fragment the realm almost immediately. The Athenian general Chabrias helped negotiate a partition, and Cersobleptes spent much of his reign fighting to reunify Thracian territory while simultaneously managing an increasingly aggressive Macedon to his west. Philip II systematically dismembered his kingdom through the 350s and 340s, ultimately capturing and deposing him around 341 BC.
Bronze civic issues from this kingdom are poorly documented in the die literature, and attribution can shift between publications.