Stater - Ennea Hodoi

Ennea Hodoi — "Nine Roads" — was a strategically vital crossing point on the Strymon River in Thrace, later seized by Athens and refounded as Amphipolis in 437 BC. The attribution of coinage to this site remains genuinely contested; some scholars assign these staters to a loose federation of local Edonian or Bisaltic tribes rather than any single polis. The Asyut hoard connection places this type firmly in the early fifth century, consistent with the board's burial date around 475 BC following Persian disruption of regional trade networks.