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Dodecadrachm
| Issuer | Derrones |
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| Year | 480 BC - 465 BC |
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| Value | Dodecadrachm (12) |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
| Reverse lettering | ΔΕΡΡΟΝΩΝ |
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The Derrones were a Paeonian tribe operating in the mineral-rich Strymon river basin, and their access to local silver sources explains the audacious weight standard of this issue — the dodecadrachm is among the heaviest denominations struck anywhere in the Greek world during the fifth century. These coins were almost certainly not everyday transaction pieces. Scholars generally read them as bullion-weight prestige objects, possibly produced for trade with or tribute payments to Achaemenid Persian administrators during the period of Macedonian and Thracian subjugation following Xerxes' campaigns westward.
The SNG ANS 929 specimen remains a primary reference point precisely because so few examples survive with confident provenance.