Stater

The Thraco-Macedonian region produced a dense cluster of autonomous silver coinages in the early fifth century, many of which remain unattributed after two centuries of scholarship. Tribal centers, mining towns, and transient Greek settlements along the Strymon corridor all struck silver on the Thraco-Macedonian standard, drawing on the exceptional ore deposits of Mount Pangaion and the Kavala hinterland. Attribution disputes among specialists are ongoing, and what one catalogue assigns to Berge, another assigns to Lete or leaves open entirely.

The Persians disrupted several of these mints during and after the campaigns of 480 BC, which partly explains the compressed and sometimes interrupted die sequences seen across the group.