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Obol
| Issuer | Orreskioi |
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| Year | 500 BC - 480 BC |
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| Value | Obol (⅙) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (500 BC - 480 BC) |
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The Orreskioi were a Thracian tribal people whose coinage belongs to a loose cluster of small silver issues produced by non-Greek communities in the northern Aegean hinterland during the early fifth century. Their coins circulated in a region where Greek mercantile activity was pushing monetization into areas with no prior tradition of struck coinage — the tribal issues that emerged were often crude, short-lived, and tied to specific political or commercial moments we can no longer fully reconstruct. This piece weighs toward the lighter end of the Thracian obol standard.