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Dodekadrachm
| Issuer | Derrones |
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| Year | 480 BC - 465 BC |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse description | A helmeted male driver, rendered in profile facing right, controls a two-wheeled cart (biga) drawn by a single ox or bull advancing to the right across a ground line composed of a double row of pellets. The animal is depicted with naturalistic musculature and a decorated collar, its head turned slightly downward. Beneath the wheels of the cart, a circular decorative element is visible in the field. The composition fills the broad, irregular flan with considerable relief, characteristic of early Macedonian and Thraco-Macedonian coinage of the archaic period. |
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| Edge | Plain, irregular |
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The Derrones were a Paionian tribe of the northern Aegean hinterland, and their massive silver issues — among the heaviest struck coins of the ancient Greek world — almost certainly owe their existence to local silver sources and the administrative demands of tribute or mercenary payment rather than routine commerce. No coin of this size circulated as pocket change. The dodekadrachm denomination was effectively abandoned everywhere within a generation; Derrones issues survive in small enough numbers to suggest the striking window was narrow.