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Stater
| Issuer | Uncertain Thraco-macedonian city (Thraco-macedonian region) |
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| Year | 500 BC - 401 BC |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (500 BC - 401 BC) |
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The Thraco-Macedonian region in the fifth century BC was not a unified political entity but a patchwork of tribes, mining communities, and semi-Hellenized settlements clustered around the silver-rich ranges of Mount Pangaion. Many staters from this area cannot be attributed to a specific issuer precisely because the minting authority was often a community or chieftain that left no literary record — the coin itself is sometimes the only surviving evidence of their existence.
Pangaion silver was among the most prized in the ancient Greek world. Athens later seized control of the region's mines to fund the fleet that defeated Persia at Salamis.