Didrachm - Seuthes Type I

Seuthes I ruled the Odrysian kingdom during a period of maximum territorial expansion, when the kingdom stretched from the Aegean coast into Thrace's interior and extracted tribute from Greek coastal cities. This didrachm belongs to a series issued when the Odrysian court was wealthy enough — and Hellenized enough — to mint silver coinage in Greek weight standards, a deliberate projection of parity with neighboring Greek poleis rather than any administrative necessity.

The Peykov corpus remains the primary reference for Odrysian coinage, though attribution of specific dies to Seuthes I versus Seuthes II has shifted across successive publications, reflected in the divergence between the Moushkmov 1912 and 2025 numbering.