Hemidrachm

Abdera's silver coinage was among the most respected in the northern Aegean trade network, struck by a city that owed its prosperity to its position on the Thracian coast and its access to timber, slaves, and grain routes. The city was refounded by Tean colonists around 545 BC, refugees fleeing the Persian advance under Harpagus — which places this hemidrachm within a generation of that resettlement.

The May reference without a catalog number suggests this piece either predates the fully classified sequence or represents an obverse/reverse pairing not yet formally attributed. Abdera's early issues are notoriously difficult to sequence given the number of magistrate name combinations on the reverse.