Æ - Metokos Type I, Horse facing left

Metokos ruled the Odrysian kingdom during one of its most turbulent transitions — he was almost certainly a son or close relative of Seuthes I, and his reign fell in the fractured decades after the death of the great Odrysian king Cotys I's predecessor Amadocus had begun consolidating rival branches of the dynasty. The Odrysians at this period were minting bronze locally, which itself marks a significant step: earlier Odrysian rulers had relied almost entirely on silver, and the introduction of a bronze coinage reflects growing administrative ambition in the Thracian interior.

Peykov's corpus remains the essential reference for this series, and Type I specimens are notably scarcer than later issues attributed to Metokos.