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Drachm
| Issuer | Apollonia Pontika |
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| Year | 450 BC - 400 BC |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Edge | Plain |
| Mint | Apollonia Pontika |
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Apollonia Pontika, the Milesian colony on the Black Sea coast of Thrace, was a significant conduit in the grain and slave trade routes connecting the Pontic steppe to the Aegean world. These drachms functioned as commercial currency in a port economy that drew Athenian and later Macedonian commercial interest. The anchor type for which Apollonia's coinage is immediately recognized became so closely identified with the city that ancient sources use it as a topographic shorthand.
The SNG Copenhagen 458 reference places this specimen within a well-documented sequence, though die studies by scholars working the Black Sea series have shown considerable variation across the fifth-century issues.