Stater - Ipponax

Abdera's magistrate coinage system named individual officials directly on the dies, making pieces like this one unusually traceable within the civic administrative record. The magistrate Ipponax — a Greek name with Ionian roots, fitting for a colony founded by Clazomenae and later refounded by Teos — held his position during a period when Abdera was navigating the pressures of Macedonian hegemony under Philip II and the early campaigns of Alexander. The city retained enough autonomy to continue issuing its own silver through this period, though that independence was becoming increasingly nominal.