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Stater - Ennea Hodoi
| Issuer | Uncertain Thraco-macedonian city (Thraco-macedonian region) |
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| Year | 500 BC - 490 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | A deeply recessed incuse square of rectangular form occupies the entire reverse, divided into compartments by raised ridges, creating a mill-sail or quadripartite incuse pattern typical of early archaic Greek coinage. The incuse impression is irregular and roughly executed, reflecting the primitive punching technique employed by Thraco-Macedonian mints at this period. The interior surfaces of the incuse show faint traces of the obverse design impressed in intaglio. No legends, symbols, or additional devices are present. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Ennea Hodoi — "Nine Roads" — was the strategic settlement at the junction of routes crossing the Strymon River, contested fiercely between Thracian tribes, Macedonian interests, and later Athenian colonial ambitions. Athens would attempt to plant a colony here in 465 BC, losing ten thousand settlers to the Edonian Thracians at the disaster of Drabescus. The issuing authority of this electrum stater remains genuinely unresolved among specialists, with Kraay and Hirmer attributing it to an uncertain Thraco-Macedonian mint rather than forcing an assignment the evidence won't support.