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Æ - Metokos Type I, Horse facing right
| Issuer | Odryssa, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 405 BC - 391 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
| Reverse lettering | ΜΗΤΟΚΟ |
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Metokos ruled the Odryssian kingdom during one of its most turbulent intervals — the prolonged fragmentation that followed the assassination of Seuthes I's successor Amadocus, when the kingdom fractured among competing dynasts and Roman-era sources become unreliable enough that even the regnal sequence is contested among specialists. These bronzes circulated across Thrace at a moment when the kingdom's grip on its tributary network was loosening, and the coinage itself reflects a local minting tradition operating at some remove from Aegean Greek influence.
The Type I designation within Peykov's classification distinguishes this horse orientation from later die variants — a distinction invisible without the reference but consequential for attribution.