Obol - Kotys I Type II, KO❦

Kotys I ruled the Odrysian Kingdom at its territorial peak, extending Thracian influence deep into the Chersonese and maintaining enough leverage over Athens to extract grain-route concessions that Athenian generals could not refuse. He was murdered in 360 or 359 BC by the comic playwright Python of Ainos and his brother — an assassination so unusual that Demosthenes later cited the killers as benefactors of Greece. The Type II obol, distinguished from the earlier issue by the floral die punch rendering the KO❦ control mark, belongs to the final productive phase of his mint.