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Drachm - Homeros
| Issuer | Abdera |
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| Year | 336 BC - 311 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse lettering | ΕΠΙ ΟΜ ΗΡ ΟΥ |
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Abdera's civic coinage from this period carried the names of local magistrates alongside divine or heroic eponyms — a practice unique among Thracian Greek cities and crucial for modern die-sequencing studies. The magistrate designation "Homeros" on this issue is an eponymous reference, not evidence that anyone believed the poet held office in Thrace; the name was drawn from a rotating list of honorific figures used to date and authenticate each emission.
Abdera itself was famously the birthplace of Democritus and Protagoras, though the city was also the butt of ancient jokes about the supposed dimwittedness of its inhabitants.