Stater - Ennea Hodoi

Ennea Hodoi — "Nine Roads" in Greek — was the original settlement at the strategically vital crossing point on the Strymon River before Athenian colonists refounded it as Amphipolis in 437 BC. Control of the site meant control of access to the timber, silver, and gold resources of the Pangaion region, which is precisely why Athens had already attempted to plant a colony there in 465 BC, a venture that ended in catastrophe at Drabeskos when Thracians killed some ten thousand settlers.

The attribution to a specific mint authority remains contested; the "Thraco-macedonian" grouping is a numismatic convenience for issues whose precise civic origin the archaeological record has not resolved.