Diobol - Sparadokos horse facing right

Sparadokos ruled the Odrysian kingdom as a subordinate dynast under his brother Sitalces in the mid-fifth century BC, a period when Thracian rulers were actively imitating Macedonian and northern Greek coinage conventions to facilitate trade with Greek coastal cities. His issues are rare; the dynasty's output was modest and the region saw persistent conflict. Most examples that survive come from Bulgarian hoards discovered in the twentieth century, which is the primary reason catalog references for this type proliferate through Eastern European scholarship rather than Western auction tradition.