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Stater - Echekrates
| Issuer | Abdera (Thrace) |
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| Year | 395 BC - 360 BC |
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| Value | Stater (2) |
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| Obverse description | Griffin leaping to the left in high relief, depicted in the archaic Thracian style characteristic of Abderan coinage. The creature is shown with powerful haunches, outstretched wings with feathers rendered in fine detail, and a curved beak; the forelegs are raised as if in mid-bound. A curved exergual line runs beneath the figure, and the flan shows the characteristically irregular fabric of fourth-century hammered silver coinage from this mint. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Abdera's magistrate-signed staters are unusual survivors of a Thracian Greek city that punched well above its commercial weight. The city controlled access to inland Thrace and levied heavily on trade moving through its territory, which funded a mint output sophisticated enough to rival larger Aegean poleis. Echekrates appears as the responsible magistrate — a common naming convention at Abdera, where the eponymous magistrate's name was struck onto the coinage as a form of civic accountability rather than royal authority.
The city was sacked by the Triballi around 376 BC, an event that likely interrupted production sequences within this very date range.